The move was one of a few declared after Wednesday’s meeting of the FIA World Council, which likewise uncovered a temporary 2017 schedule that intently tails the current year’s record 21-race season.
The season will begin in Australia on 26 March and end in Abu Dhabi on 26 November. The British Grand Prix is on 9 July and the Canadian, German and Brazilian races are recorded as subject to affirmation.
FIA to locate the most ideal answer for an arrangement of guidelines that are gone for keeping a cover on expenses while likewise permitting makers to build up their energy units so their execution focalizes. The new rule says: “During any single event, if a driver introduces more than one of a power unit element that is subject to penalty, only the last element fitted may be used at subsequent events without further penalty. This is to prevent the stockpiling of spare power unit elements.” There is a progression of matrix punishments for utilizing more than the allowed number of these parts – 10 places interestingly a 6th of any of the parts is utilized, and five spots for any resulting 6th component; 10 places surprisingly a seventh component is utilized, and five spots for each consequent one, etc.
The bargain that prompted the current year’s loophole emerged out of reactions of the main rendition of the tenet, which forced a progression of in-race punishments if the aggregate punishment couldn’t be served by being downgraded various spots on the framework. But since punishments couldn’t be carried over, and in light of the fact that it was chosen that no further punishments would be forced other than heading off to the back of the lattice, when they endure a punishment teams have tended to take the same number of engine parts as they feel they requirement for future races, in order to be punished just once.
Formula 1 has shut a loophole that permitted teams to get around tenets confining engine parts without bringing about over the top punishments.
It was misused by Mercedes at the current year’s Belgian Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton began at the back of the matrix in spite of the team fitting three new engines and bringing about punishments totalling 55 network places.
From 2017, if more than one new part acquires a punishment, just the last can be utilized at later races without a punishment.
