@@@ F1 Thread: 2015-16 Season@@@... Singapore Gp.. Sept 20 @ 8 Am Et

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Marussia

 

 

 

Merhi

 

 

Stevens

 

 

 

Against all expectations, Graeme Lowdon and John Booth have saved the Marussia team, with investment from energy magnate Stephen Fitzpatrick, and Justin King as interim team chairman. They say they will run in Melbourne with 2015-legal versions of last year’s MR03 before a proper ‘15 car appears later in the season.

 

 

 

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Sauber

 

 

 

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Nasr

 

Sauber got their campaign with the new C34 off to a great start with fast times in the Jerez test, but nobody was fooled as rookie Felipe Nasr was quickest on the third day and he and new team mate Marcus Ericsson finished second on the other days. After the problems with the C33 in last year’s pointless challenge that was encouraging, but hardly an accurate reflection of the pecking order.

 

 

Since then the car has, as expected, slipped down the ranks. But it’s been reasonably reliable and, bar the silly collision between Nasr and Susie Wolff on the first day of the first Barcelona test, and then some mechanical issues, Sauber didn’t lose much track time thereafter.

 

Things went well in the final Barcelona test and they were able to do a lot of race running and there was general intra-team satisfaction with progress even though the car looked a little twitchy out on the track. The Swiss team could be in a good position to score points and avoid a repeat of 2014.

 

 

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If it was the cars that attracted all the attention this time last year, this time it’s most definitely the drivers, with wholesale change across the grid.

 

 

Though he will necessarily miss the opening round in Melbourne after his testing accident, Fernando Alonso’s return to McLaren, and Sebastian Vettel’s move from Red Bull to the Spaniard’s vacated seat at Ferrari, have created dramatic and exciting prospects for both teams after their struggles last year.

 

Can the quadruple world champion help the heavily revamped Scuderia - and himself - back into the winner’s circle? Or will team mate Kimi Raikkonen recapture past glories in a car whose front end works the way he likes? And will Alonso likewise turn around McLaren’s fortunes as Honda come back into F1 racing for the first time since 2008? Or will the two-time champion be upstaged by Jenson Button? How long will the team’s teething troubles last?

 

With Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas maintaining the consistency at Williams, will all of them be able to hold a candle to the Mercedes of world champion Lewis Hamilton and the hungry Nico Rosberg, as the German vows to be even stronger than he was last year?

 

At the same time, 2014 sensation Daniel Ricciardo will be partnered by sophomore rising star Daniil Kvyat at Red Bull. Will the Australian continue the hugely impressive form with which he surprised the world as he thoroughly overshadowed Vettel, or will it be his turn to be upstaged by the highly rated Russian?

 

Meanwhile, down at Toro Rosso two of the most promising rookies in recent years - Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Junior - add another fascinating dimension to the driver market. Both are quick and, like Kvyat last year, are set to leave a mark.

 

At Sauber, Felipe Nasr makes it two Brazilians in F1 racing, while Will Stevens adds a third British driver at the phoenix-like Marussia team.

 

And three other Britons will have chances to shine as test and reserve drivers: Susie Wolff and Alex Lynn at Williams, and Jolyon Palmer at Lotus.

 

For the second time in history there will be 20 races in a season, as Mexico makes a welcome return to the calendar for the first time since 1992, using a revised version of the famed Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City.

 

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Team changes

Honda returned to Formula One as an engine supplier, providing McLaren with a V6 engine and Energy Recovery System package, ending the team's 20 year partnership with Mercedes-Benz.Honda had previously supplied McLaren from 1988 until 1992, when they ended their involvement in Formula One. Honda returned to the sport in 2000, again as an engine supplier, providing British American Racing and Jordan Grand Prix with engines until they purchased the former in 2006 and competed as a constructor until 2008.

 

Lotus changed engine suppliers, ending their association with Renault in favour of a deal with Mercedes.This ended a 20 year involvement of Renault with the Enstone based team, after being an engine supplier to Benetton since 1995, and being the owner of the team from 2002 to 2010.

 

Following the 2014 Russian Grand Prix, Marussia went into administration, missing the final three races of the 2014 season. The team appeared on the provisional entry list under the name "Manor F1", and in November 2014, administrators announced that the Marussia team would cease trading and close down, while parent company Manor retained the entry. In February 2015, new investment was secured and the team left administration after an agreement with creditors was reached.

 

The assets of the Caterham team were scheduled for auction by the company's administrators beginning just days before the opening round of the season, and the team was not included on the final entry list published ahead of the opening race.

 

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Driver changes

 

Fernando Alonso will replace Kevin Magnussen at McLaren, returning to the team seven years after he last raced for them.Following an accident during pre-season testing, Alonso withdrew from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, and Magnussen was named as his temporary replacement.

 

Sebastian Vettel left Red Bull Racing at the end of the 2014 season after fifteen years with the team and its wider junior development programme to join Ferrari in the place of Alonso. Daniil Kvyat was promoted to Red Bull from Toro Rosso to fill the seat vacated by Vettel.

 

Toro Rosso overhauled their lineup after Kvyat and Jean-Éric Vergne left the team, signing reigning Formula Renault 3.5 Series champion Carlos Sainz Jr., and European Formula Three third place finisher Max Verstappen. Verstappen became the youngest driver to make his Formula One début at the age of 17 years, 164 days when he started the 2015 season.

 

Esteban Gutiérrez and Adrian Sutil were released from Sauber, where they were replaced by Caterham's Marcus Ericsson and GP2 driver Felipe Nasr. Giedo van der Garde made successful legal challenges against Sauber in both Swiss and Australian courts, with the latter passing down an order for the team to field him at the opening round.

 

Manor F1 hired former Caterham driver Will Stevens to drive for his first full season in the sport, and signed former Caterham test driver Roberto Merhi to a one-race deal for the opening round.

 

Kamui Kobayashi left Caterham to race in the Super Formula series in Japan.

 

Max Chilton left Marussia to join Nissan Motorsports in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Marussia driver Jules Bianchi suffered a brain injury in an accident at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix and remained in an indefinite coma as a result.

 

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The rule changes

 

The Virtual Safety Car has been approved for 2015 and may be initiated to neutralise a race upon the order of the clerk of the course The rule changes.

 

There has been none of the wide-ranging changes we saw in 2014 with the introduction of the 1.6-litre turbocharged hybrid cars, but the most significant concern changes to the powertrains.

 

After heavy lobbying from the Ferrari and Renault-powered teams, who suffered from the two companies’ failure to build competitive engines for the new formula, the FIA was able to identify and exploit a loophole - despite understandable opposition from Mercedes who did far and away the best engineering job with the new powertrains and deserved to clean up - whereby Ferrari and Renault were able to bypass the agreed engine development freeze and make changes to their hardware to help close up the field.

 

The new powertrains had to be homologated by February 28th, 2014, with no further development allowed to the end of the season. But the 2015 rules only stated that the engines had to be homologated, without specifying a date. Thus Ferrari and Renault (and Mercedes should they wish) had longer to develop their 2015 powertrains than the end of February.

 

Each manufacturer is allowed a stipulated number of tokens which cover different aspects of the engines, and they are thus free to keep developing them until they have no tokens left, whereupon they can homologate the unit for the season.

 

Changes to the technical regulations include another increase of the minimum weight, which rises from 701 kg without fuel, to 702. Interlinked suspension is banned under rules dictating that the front suspension must react only to changes in load applied to the front wheels, and likewise for the rear suspension.

 

The Zylon anti-intrusion panels on both sides of the survival cell have been extended upwards to the rim of the cockpit and alongside the driver’s head, in response to Jules Bianchi’s accident, and there have been further limitations in the governance of wind tunnel testing and the aerodynamic reporting periods for 2015 and 2016.

 

Additionally, the FIA have revised the penalties for using more than the allotted allocation of power units in a single season (which has dropped from five to four). Changing a full powertrain will no longer incur an automatic penalty. Instead penalties will be cumulative, based on the individual components of each power unit. If a grid place penalty is imposed, and the driver’s grid position is such that the full penalty cannot be applied, the remainder of the penalty will be applied in the form of a time penalty during the race, instead of rolling over to the following race as another grid penalty.

 

Among changes under the Sporting Regulations, the qualifying procedure has been clarified: with 20 eligible cars, five will be excluded after Q1 and Q2. The controversial double points season finale is no more, and after consultation with the teams the proposed use of standing restarts after safety car periods has also been dropped. And following successful trials in the final races last year, the Virtual Safety Car has been approved for 2015. It may be initiated to neutralise a race upon the order of the clerk of the course, and will normally be used when double waved yellow flags are needed on any section of track and competitors or officials may be in danger, but the circumstances are not such as to warrant use of the safety car itself.

If a race is suspended, the pit exit will be closed and all cars must now proceed slowly into the pit lane, not the starting grid.

 

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Calendar changes

 

 

Returning races

The Mexican Grand Prix is scheduled to return to the Formula One calendar for the first time since 1992. The race is to be held at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez circuit located in the centre of Mexico City, which also was the location of all of the Mexican Grands Prix in previous decades. The circuit will be substantially reconfigured to accommodate the sport's return.

 

 

Pending changes

The German Grand Prix was set to return to the Nürburgring, in accordance with the event-sharing agreement established between the Nürburgring and the Hockenheimring in 2008. The Nürburgring had previously hosted the race in 2013 and so was scheduled to host it again in 2015, but the venue was left off of the provisional calendar, leaving the event-sharing agreement at a stalemate.

 

 

Failed race bids

The Grand Prix of America, originally aimed for a debut in 2013 at the Port Imperial Street Circuit in New Jersey, was again delayed for a third straight year.
The Indian Grand Prix was canceled for the second consecutive year following tax disputes between the FIA and the Uttar Pradesh government.
The Korean Grand Prix was scheduled to return to the Formula One calendar after being removed in 2014, but the plan was ultimately abandoned.

 

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Regulation changes

 

Technical regulationsThe number of power units that a driver may use in a season will be reduced from five in 2014 to four in 2015.

 

The rules regarding engine development that were introduced in 2014 will change, with the manufacturers allowed to perform half the development permitted in 2014; the development will be halved again in 2016.

 

Following the backlash over "ugly" nose designs in 2014, the FIA moved to amend the rules surrounding nose designs for the 2015 season. Noses will now be lower than in 2014, retaining a minimum cross section, but they must taper to a point at a fixed linear rate, effectively outlawing the dramatic finger shapes seen in 2014 in favour of a more gradual shape. Furthermore, the design of the nose must be symmetrical and consistent with the centreline of the car, thereby banning the more exotic designs, such as the "twin-tusk" approach used by Lotus on the E22 chassis.

 

The minimum weight of the cars at all times during an event was increased to 702 kilograms (1,548 lb).

 

The ban on Front-and-Rear Interconnected suspension systems (FRIC) implemented in the middle of the 2014 season was formalised, with the regulations stating that the front and rear suspension must be designed in such a way that any change in performance must be a direct result of a change in load applied solely to them.

 

The anti-intrusion panels on both sides of the survival cell have been extended upwards to the rim of the cockpit and alongside the driver's head.

Following the financial struggles faced by Marussia and Caterham in 2014, the FIA approved the use of 2014-specification chassis in 2015 provided that teams showed cause and received an individual dispensation to compete with their old chassis. However a request by Manor F1 to use their 2014 car was later rejected by the other teams.

 

Subsequent regulation changes allowed the team to use the 2014 model of Ferrari power units in their 2015 chassis instead of the 2015 specification power units used by Ferrari and other customer teams.

 

 

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Regulation changes in 2015

 

Engines

 

The biggest debate for much of 2014 and the start of the new year has been about engines. A loophole in the FIA's regulations means Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari's engine development will no longer be constricted to the February 28 homologation deadline. Instead, they can spread development over the course of a season, albeit restricted to 32 tokens on certain parts of the engine. Honda returns to the sport with McLaren but is subject to slightly different rules as 2015 is its first year with V6 turbo engines. Though initially it was to be held to a homologation deadline, the FIA has given Honda a concession and it will start the season with the average amount of tokens unused by its rivals at that stage. Another key change is that all four manufacturers will be restricted to just four power units for the entire season, rather than the five they were allowed in 2014.

 

 

 

 

Cars

The ugly noses of 2014 have been confined to the history books, with concern over both aesthetics and safety leading to a change for this year. The new noses will be much lower and tapered, like they were in the mid-1990s. The regulations now have less room for interpretation than they did last year, meaning it is unlikely we will see as much variation in design. The minimum weight of the car (without fuel) has been increased from 691kg and 702kg so taller drivers are not penalised and there is less emphasis on drivers losing weight, with Adrian Sutil admitting last year he went two days without food in attempt to drop the pounds.

 

 

 

 

Safety car

 

Jules Bianchi's horrific crash in Japan last year brought the issue of safety back to the surface in Formula One, especially as it occurred while yellow flags were being waved. This year sees the introduction of the Virtual Safety Car (VSC) as a result for situations which do not warrant a safety car. Drivers will be required to stick to a delta time on their steering wheels, with a penalty for anyone who fails to do so. Following a safety car period the race will resume under a traditional rolling start after the standing restarts rule mooted for 2015 was dropped. The safety car will also return to the pits as soon as the last lapped car has passed the leader in order to restart the race as quickly as possible.

 

 

 

Testing

 

All of the winter tests will be in Europe this year, in Jerez (February 1-4) and Barcelona (February 19-22 and February 26-March 1). In-season tests have been halved, with two two-day meets scheduled after Spain and Austria. At least two of the four in-season test days must be allocated to young drivers, defined as someone who has not competed at two races or less. Teams can run their 2015 cars at two demonstration events during the year.

 

 

Penalties

 

At the end of 2014 several drivers suffered severe grid penalties for engine changes, some of which carried over multiple races. This will no longer be the case in 2015. A grid drop will still apply for changing certain components after drivers have exceeded their initial allotment, but any unused penalty will be converted into a time penalty for the race rather than carrying over to other events. This will also apply in the case of changing an entire power unit, previously resulting in a pit-lane start, with a cumulative penalty for each component being installed and, if necessary, a time penalty for the race.

Pit stop penalties have been tweaked, with a ten-second penalty being added for more serious infringements for drivers to take at their next pit stop or added to their time at the finish. An unsafe release will trigger a ten-second stop-and-go penalty, while a car must start from the pit lane if any team member or equipment remains on the grid after the 15-second signal sounds before the formation lap.

 

 

 

Young drivers

 

One of the more intriguing change to the regulations, announced in December, was the change to super licence rules. As a reaction to Max Verstappen's early elevation to F1 drivers will need to be 18 or over and have at least 40 'points' to their names from 2016 onwards. These points are obtained in other categories, which have been controversially weighted in favour of FIA events and at the expense of Formula Renault 3.5, a traditional stepping stone towards F1. Half of the current grid, including Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, would not have qualified for their debut F1 seasons under the amended regulations.

 

 

Other changes

•The latest date the sporting and technical regulations can be changed without unanimous agreement has been brought forward to March 1, having previously been June 30.
 

•Instead of doing so at the start of FP3, a car will only considered to be in parc ferme conditions from the beginning of qualifying.
 

•Teams must choose their gear ratios at the beginning of the season and then stick with them for the rest of the season.
 

•A proposed ban on tyre blankets has been rescinded, though the issue will remain on the agenda for future discussions.
 

•The derided double points format has been ditched for the Abu Dhabi finale, meaning in all 20 races the top ten will be awarded points as follows: 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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