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23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team (Mercedes)
23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png #44 Lewis Hamilton
23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png #6 Nico Rosberg

 

23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png Infiniti Red Bull Racing (Renault)
23px-Flag_of_Australia.svg.png #3 Daniel Ricciardo
23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png #26 Daniil Kvyat

 

23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png Williams Martini Racing (Mercedes)
22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png #19 Felipe Massa
23px-Flag_of_Finland.svg.png #77 Valtteri Bottas

 

23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png Scuderia Ferrari (Ferrari)
23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png #5 Sebastian Vettel
23px-Flag_of_Finland.svg.png #7 Kimi Räikkönen

 

23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png McLaren Honda (Honda)
20px-Flag_of_Denmark.svg.png #20 Kevin Magnussen (Round 1) / 23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png#14 Fernando Alonso (Rounds 2-19)
23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png #22 Jenson Button

 

23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png Sahara Force India F1 Team (Mercedes)
23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png #11 Sergio Pérez
23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png #27 Nico Hülkenberg

 

23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png Scuderia Toro Rosso (Renault)
23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png #33 Max Verstappen
23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png #55 Carlos Sainz, Jr.

 

23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png Lotus F1 Team (Mercedes)
23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png #8 Romain Grosjean
23px-Flag_of_Venezuela.svg.png #13 Pastor Maldonado

 

23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png Manor Marussia F1 Team (Ferrari 059/3 (2014-spec))
23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png #28 Will Stevens
23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png #98 Roberto Merhi (Rounds 1-12, 15, 19) / United States #53 Alexander Rossi (Rounds 13-14, 16-18)

 

16px-Flag_of_Switzerland.svg.png Sauber F1 Team (Ferrari)
23px-Flag_of_Sweden.svg.png #9 Marcus Ericsson
22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png #12 Felipe Nasr

 

CALENDAR


15th March 2015
23px-Flag_of_Australia.svg.png Round 1 - Australian Grand Prix (Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne)

 

29th March 2015
23px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg.png Round 2 - Malaysian Grand Prix (Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur)

 

12th April 2015
23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_ Round 3 - Chinese Grand Prix (Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai)

 

19th April 2015
23px-Flag_of_Bahrain.svg.png Round 4 - Bahrain Grand Prix (Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir)

 

10th May 2015
23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png Round 5 - Spanish Grand Prix (Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona)

 

24th May 2015
19px-Flag_of_Monaco.svg.png Round 6 - Monaco Grand Prix (Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo)

 

7th June 2015
23px-Flag_of_Canada.svg.png Round 7 - Canadian Grand Prix (Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal)

 

21st June 2015
23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png Round 8 - Austrian Grand Prix (Red Bull Ring, Spielberg)

 

5th July 2015
23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png Round 9 - British Grand Prix (Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone)

 

26th July 2015
23px-Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png Round 10 - Hungarian Grand Prix (Hungaroring, Budapest)

 

23rd August 2015
23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png Round 11 - Belgian Grand Prix (Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot)

 

6th September 2015
23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png Round 12 - Italian Grand Prix (Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza)

 

20th September 2015
23px-Flag_of_Singapore.svg.png Round 13 - Singapore Grand Prix (Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore)

 

27th September 2015
23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png Round 14 - Japanese Grand Prix (Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka)

 

11th October 2015
23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png Round 15 - Russian Grand Prix (Sochi Autodrom, Sochi)

 

25th October 2015
23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png Round 16 - United States Grand Prix (Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas)

 

1st November 2015
23px-Flag_of_Mexico.svg.png Round 17 - Mexican Grand Prix (Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City)

 

15th November 2015
22px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png Round 18 - Brazilian Grand Prix (Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo)

 

29th November 2015
23px-Flag_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates.sv Round 19 - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - (Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi)

 

REGULATION CHANGES - TECHNICAL

  • The 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.

REGULATION CHANGES - SPORTING

  • The replacement of a complete power unit will no longer result in a penalty. Instead, penalties will be applied cumulatively for individual components of the power unit. If such a grid place penalty is imposed and the driver's grid position is such that the full penalty cannot be applied, then the remainder of the penalty will no longer be carried over to the next race, but will instead be applied in the form of a time penalty during the race corresponding to the number of grid spaces remaining in the penalty.
  • In addition to the existing five-second penalty that may be served during a driver's scheduled pit stop, a new ten-second penalty that will have to be served in the same manner, will be introduced.
  • If a car is deemed to have been released from its pit stop in an unsafe manner, the driver will receive a ten second stop-and-go penalty. Further penalties will be applied if the stewards believe that the driver is aware of this and attempts to drive the car regardless.
  • The qualifying procedure has been further clarified to cater to different sizes of starting grids: if twenty-four cars are entered for the race, seven will be eliminated after the each of the first two qualifying segments; if twenty-two are entered, six will be eliminated after each qualifying segment and so on if fewer cars are eligible.
  • The partial ban on pit-to-car communication introduced at the 2014 Singapore Grand Prix will be extended to include a blanket ban on sharing technical data between team and driver, such as specific fuel consumption settings.
  • Double points will no longer be awarded at the final event of the championship.
  • In light of a regulation introduced in 2014 dictating that a race can not run for more than four hours and following recommendations from the report into Jules Bianchi's accident at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, the start times of five Grands Prix have been brought forward by one hour, so that races do not start with less than four hours until dusk. Thus, the Australian, Malaysia, Chinese, Japanese and Russian Grands Prix will start an hour earlier than in 2014.
  • In the aftermath of Bianchi's accident, a new procedure called virtual safety car (VSC) will be introduced, obliging drivers to reduce their speed to match the one indicated on their displays on their steering wheels. The procedure may be initiated when double waved yellow flags are needed on any section of a circuit where competitors and officials may be in danger, but the circumstances are not as such to warrant deployment of the actual safety car.
  • The safety car procedure was amended. Once the last lapped car has passed the leader, the safety car will return to the pits at the end of the following lap. This is a change of the previous practice which required the unlapped cars to have caught up with the back of the pack before the safety car could return to the pits.
  • If a race is suspended, the cars will no longer line up on the grid but will slowly proceed to the pit lane instead. Pit exit will be closed and the first car to arrive in the pit lane will proceed to the exit with the other lining up behind the first one.
  • If any team personnel or team equipment remain on the grid after the fifteen-second signal has been shown before the start of the formation lap, the driver of the car concerned must start the race from the pit lane. If the driver concerned fails to obey this, they will receive a ten second stop-and-go penalty.
  • Drivers are no longer permitted to change the design of their helmet in-season.
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Bernie Ecclestone has regained his position on the board of Formula 1's management group, while ex-Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has also been handed a renewed position. F1's commercial tsar formally stepped down at the beginning of the year, while he fought bribery charges in Germany relating to the sale of F1 in 2006. The charges were dropped when Ecclestone agreed a $100million settlement in the summer, and Ecclestone insisted his control of the sport had remained unchanged while the case proceeded. The sport's owner - CVC Capital Partners - announced on Thursday that it had reappointed Ecclestone, 84, to the board of the Formula One Group, and that he would continue in his position as Group CEO. CVC also confirmed that former Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, who represented the Scuderia as a non-executive director of the Formula One Group between 2012 and 2014, would be reappointed in a similar role. CVC has also appointed Paul Walsh as a non-executive director.
Former Bridgestone Formula 1 tyre chief Hirohide Hamashima will leave Ferrari at the end of 2014, as the Scuderia continues a major restructure in the wake of a disappointing season. Ferrari announced on Tuesday that both engineering director Pat Fry, who recruited Hamashima to Ferrari for the 2012 season, and chief designer Nicolas Tombazis would be leaving the F1 team. Hamashima's impending departure is the latest in a series of staff shuffles at Maranello, which is continuing a major restructuring under new team principal Maurizio Arrivabene following a season in which Ferrari failed to win a race for the first time since 1993.
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Jean-Eric Vergne will join Ferrari's Formula 1 test roster for 2015, with the ex-Toro Rosso racer focusing on simulator work for the Italian team. Vergne joins ex-Sauber F1 racer Esteban Gutierrez on Ferrari's revised test list, alongside incumbents Marc Gene and Davide Rigon. But Ferrari has parted company with Pedro de la Rosa, who had been one of its development drivers for the past two years. Since parting with Toro Rosso, Vergne has already returned to racing in Formula E, where he took pole and led on his series debut with Andretti Autosport in Punta del Este last weekend.
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Well it's clear that they're seeing wether JEV or Esteban is better than the other, and most likely put him on track to replace Kimi when the time is right. All the while helping to design the car for the future.

Seems to me that Ferrari is really intent on rebuilding their entire style, knowing that the slow-build style of Red Bull and Mercedes have been so succesfull.

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Pleased for JEV, I think he has real talent and he deserves a spot somewhere.

I don't think he's being primed for a Ferrari seat though, when Kimi calls it quits I think they'll still adopt the policy of taking a lead driver from another team instead of bringing up a youngster, maybe someone like Hulkenberg or Bottas.

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The Ferrari Formula 1 team has confirmed the signing of Lewis Hamilton's performance engineer Jock Clear as a replacement for ousted engineering director Pat Fry. Clear, who was race engineer for Jacques Villeneuve when he won the F1 world championship for Williams in 1997, will move to Maranello as a direct replacement for Fry, who left the team last week.
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Spain and Austria will hold the only in-season Formula 1 tests this year, as part of a reduction in running agreed by teams. Following a move last year to allow limited development mileage during the campaign, teams took part in four tests - after the Bahrain, Spanish, British, and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix. However, with teams finding that the benefit of the tests did not justify the expense, it was agreed to cut back on running this year. The FIA's 2015 Sporting Regulations, which were published on Thursday, confirmed that there will now be just two tests of two days - with teams having to run drivers with less than two F1 starts for two of the four days. Teams have agreed that the tests will take place at Barcelona after the Spanish Grand Prix on May 10 and at the Red Bull Ring after the Austrian GP on June 21. The tests will take place on the Tuesday and Wednesday after the races. F1's pre-season testing has already been reduced from four tests in 2014 to just three this year. There will be one at Jerez (February 1-4) and two at Barcelona (February 19-22 and February 26-March 1). For 2016 there will be a further restriction in testing, with just two pre-season tests taking place in Europe.
McLaren has become the first Formula 1 team to officially confirm its 2015 launch date, with its new Honda-powered MP4/30 to be unveiled on January 29. Ferrari will launch its new Formula 1 car on the Friday before the first pre-season test. The Italian outfit will unveil its 2015 challenger online on January 30 from its Maranello base - before it is shipped to Jerez for its debut run on the Sunday.

The procedure for Formula 1's new virtual safety car (VSC) system has been confirmed by the FIA, after the publication of its 2015 rules. The virtual safety car came about in the wake of Jules Bianchi's Japanese Grand Prix crash, with the governing body believing that a new way was needed to slow cars down in the event of an incident. Following successful trials of the concept during practice at the final three races last year, rules were agreed with teams. These have now been formally added to F1's sporting regulations. Article 41 of the rule books outlines how the VSC procedure will work - and makes it clear that it will normally be implemented 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." When the VSC is called out, the marshalling light panels around the track will display 'VSC'. Drivers will not be allowed to enter the pits, unless it is for the purpose of changing tyres, and they will have to stay above a minimum time set by the FIA at least once in each marshalling sector. Any driver that does not respect the speed limit will be sanctioned by stewards. When race control is happy that it is safe to resume racing, teams will be informed on the official message system that the VSC period is ending and then "at any time between 10 and 15 seconds later, 'VSC' on the FIA light panels will change to green and drivers may continue racing immediately. After 30 seconds the green lights will be extinguished." Rules relating to standing starts after safety cars and double points have been removed from the 2015 rules, after it was agreed to ditch the concepts at the end of last year.
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Hockenheim will host the 2015 German Grand Prix after the Nurburgring failed to complete an agreement with Formula 1's commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone.
The two German tracks agreed in 2006 they would host the race in alternative years, with this season being the Nurburgring's turn.
However the track changed ownership amid financial difficulties last year, and F1 boss Ecclestone said no deal had been put in place with the new Nurburgring regime for 2015.
"It's going to be at Hockenheim, we're in the middle of doing something with them," Ecclestone told Reuters.
"It can't be Nurburgring because there's nobody there."
Ecclestone suggested the Nurburgring would not return to the calendar for the time being.
"We've got a contract in place [with Hockenheim], we just have to amend the years of the contract," he added.
"It was alternating with Nurburgring so we'll just take that out."
The 2015 German GP is scheduled to take place on July 19.
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Marussia's bosses have been given a late boost in their hopes of saving the Formula 1 team, after administrators agreed to stop an auction of its final assets.
Although the team has been in administration since last October, its chiefs Graeme Lowdon and John Booth have been working behind the scenes to secure new backers that will get it back on the grid.
Those talks have so far failed to reach fruition, but progress of the discussions with one group of investors was encouraging enough on Monday for administrators to call off a planned auction of the team's remaining assets that was scheduled for Wednesday.
A short statement issued by Marussia's administrators, FRP Advisory LLP, said: "A planned auction of the Company's remaining assets due to commence on Wednesday 21 January 2015 has been halted to allow for discussions to continue with a third party."
The auction included the team's 2014 cars, spare parts and team equipment. If it had gone ahead then there seemed little chance of the team finding a way back.
There have been no details released about who Marussia's chiefs are talking to, but discussions will need to be concluded quickly if the outfit is to make it on to the grid for the start of the season.
It is already too late for the team to prepare a 2015 car, and any leeway that there may be to begin the campaign with its 2014 challenger still needs approval from rival teams and the FIA.
Furthermore, many of Marussia's staff have found jobs elsewhere so the team would need to recruit personnel to get itself back in shape.
Although Marussia collapsed with £31 million of debt to trade suppliers, it has remained of interest to investors because of commercial rights income it secured last year.
The ninth place it finished in the constructors' championship could be worth as much as £35 million per season, but only if it competes in 2015.
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