#Changes for 2016 f1 season drivers
Tweaks to the rule regarding track limits, after controversies about drivers going beyond the lines demarcating the edge of the circuit, will include a requirement for drivers to "make every reasonable effort to use the track at all times and may not deliberately leave the track without a justifiable reason".Īnd a change has been made to engines for next season to try to make them louder, following criticisms that the new turbo hybrid engines are too quiet. No wings + proper tyres + no fuel limits full on racing. Undo the changes that didnt work instead. The season ends in Abu Dhabi on 27 November as originally scheduled. Formula 1 should stop making new rules to overcome problems created by previous rule changes. In other notable changes, the new European Grand Prix in the Azerbaijani capital Baku will be on 19 June, a week after the Canadian race in Montreal. Strategy variation the key in F1 as Pirelli prepares to test ultrasoft tyre for 2016.
The latest provisional 2016 F1 calendar is as follows:Īnd a mid-season break of four weeks has been reintroduced after a decision to cut it to three was criticised by teams, saying it would make the workload on mechanics intolerable. Rio Haryanto gets second Manor Formula 1 seat for 2016 season. Singapore organisers objected to the races being back-to-back because they felt it would negatively affect their event to have another race so close geographically on the following weekend. The list also sees a date change for Malaysia, moving it two weeks apart from the Singapore race with which it had originally been twinned. The revised schedule for what was described as an "updated provisional calendar" - suggesting there could be further changes at a later date - was released following a meeting of F1's legislative body, the world motorsport council of governing body the FIA, on Wednesday. But teams complained about the compressed schedule caused by trying to cram in a record 21 races.Īustralia will be followed by Bahrain, China and Russia at two-week intervals, with the British Grand Prix on 10 July.