Each driver may now used five during the season and will incur penalties as before if they use six or more components. This in turn triggered a clause granting teams an extra power unit on top of the original allocation of four. Drivers must make their selections for each race 14 weeks in advance of all non-European rounds and eight weeks in advance of all European rounds.Įach driver gets five power units for 2016A change to the rules for 2016 approved an increase in the total number of races from 20 to 21. Pirelli also has to nominate the softest of its three chosen compounds which drivers must use in Q3. Every driver must use at least one of these sets during the race, plus another set of a different compound. Pirelli has to nominate up to two tyre compounds of which every driver must have at least one set of available for the race. There are further restrictions on those choices, however. But whereas this entire selection was previously specified by Pirelli, now only two of them are and each driver can choose the remaining eleven. As before each driver gets 13 sets of slicks and must hand back a certain number of these prior to qualifying. The new ultra-soft tyre will appear at MonacoThe second major change to the sporting rules for 2016 is intended to give drivers and teams greater freedom of choice over their tyre selections for each race.į1’s official tyre supplier now nominates three dry-weather tyre compounds for each race instead of two. Note that there are 22 cars entered for this year’s championship instead of 20 last year.

However at the end of each session all drivers will be allowed to complete their final lap before the last car is eliminated. If the slowest driver is on a lap when the elimination happens they will have to return to the pits without completing it. The major change to the arrangement is that the slowest driver will be now eliminated every 90 seconds during each of the three phases rather than all at once. The FIA published F1’s new qualifying rules just eight days before the cars will be on track to decide pole position for the season-opening race.

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