Plans to increase the points-scoring positions in Method 1 to cowl the highest 12 have been rejected by F1 Fee.
Nevertheless the fee authorised different modifications for upcoming seasons, together with a rise within the minimal weight restrict for 2025 and a major enhance in testing when new laws arrive in 2026.
The FIA confirmed the fee agreed unanimously to not lengthen the factors system to cowl two extra locations past the present 10. The proposal would have left factors for the highest seven ending positions unchanged, then given 5 factors for eighth down to at least one for twelfth.
F1’s factors system was final prolonged in 2010, previous to which it coated the highest eight. Till 2002 solely the highest six finishers scored factors.
The fee authorised a rise within the minimal weight restrict from 798kg to 800kg subsequent yr. That is being completed to permit the minimal weight for drivers to rise from 80kg to 82kg. That is the primary time the allowance for drivers has been elevated since its introduction 5 years in the past.
Nevertheless the rise in minimal weight goes towards the FIA’s goal of creating vehicles lighter. It intends to scale back the minimal weight restrict to 768kg in 2026, a goal some groups have warned is unrealistic.
The fee additionally agreed a major growth in testing for the 2026 season, when F1 will introduce new energy models and main modifications to its aerodynamic guidelines. Groups may have 9 days of testing cut up throughout three separate checks, in comparison with only one three-day take a look at this yr.
The selections require the approval of the World Motor Sport Council with the intention to grow to be official.
The primary draft of the 2026 technical laws was printed final month. A unprecedented assembly of the F1 Fee will happen on October 2nd to debate points surrounding the foundations, after which an replace on the sporting and technical laws for the brand new season shall be offered to the World Motor Sport Council on October seventeenth.
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