Formula One 2010: 30 Days Away from the New Era or Are We?

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Published: February 14, 2010

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Here we are. It's the 14th of February, and the Formula One season is 30 days away from starting. That's only 720 hours or so. 720 hours and counting until the start of a new era in the history of Formula One. But that begs the question: how different might this "New World Order" look from the so derided ancient regime of Formula One?

Both the FIA and FOTA have a a lot of interest in marketing 2010 as the beginning of a new era for the sport—but for two entirely different reasons.

The FIA with Mosley or with Todt has been leading Formula One towards a future that looks very different from the glorious past of the sport. The FIA wants equity, in both how the resources are distributed and how they might be spent by the teams.

The budget capping concept failed, but the "resource restriction" compromise plan has also been unsuccessful, with two possible no-shows when the lights go off in the sands of Bahrain.

In order to do this, the FIA also aims to make the sport less open to technical evolution. Just look at all of the cars released so far in 2010; almost all of them look exactly the same and strive to tackle the rather strict technical regulations in exactly the same way,by utilizing long wheel bases to allow for a bigger fuel tank, a double diffuser, and more often than not a duckbill front nose and a shark fin engine cover.

I know motorsports is a copycat endeavour, but to make the regulations so strict as to see so little variance from car to car is against the spirit of Formula One.

The FIA wants to make Formula One something it's never been, namely, "green," and the lengths it will go to make it so are fairly ridiculous. Things like the green stripe around the Bridgestone option tires, the refuelling ban, and most obviously and divisively the quick institution and banning of KERS (but only at the team's behest).

That is what the FIA's vision of the new Formula One is, and ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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