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Mohammed Ben Sulayem was elected president of the FIA successful December 2021 but said successful February 2023 helium would instrumentality a measurement backFIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem did not be Tuesday's gathering of Formula 1's rule-forming body, the F1 Commission.
The gathering was chaired by caller FIA F1 single-seater manager Nikolas Tombazis and F1 president Stefano Domenicali.
Among a bid of changes was a revision to the points strategy to debar the contention that arose astatine past year's Japanese Grand Prix, erstwhile Max Verstappen and his Red Bull team were not wide whether the Dutchman had won the satellite title.
The contention arose due to the fact that the rules had been changed with the volition of clarifying the points strategy for races that did not tally to afloat distance, but the wording utilized had failed to execute its aim.
The caller wording is aimed astatine reflecting the archetypal volition of those changes, which were meant to present a standard of points reductions for races depending connected however overmuch of the archetypal region had been completed.
Among different additions to the rules, new, improved wet-weather tyres were approved.
These volition beryllium introduced for the archetypal clip astatine the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, the 5th contention of the play connected 16-18 April.
The tyre is said to beryllium "more performant than the erstwhile specification" - the mediocre show of the Pirelli 'extreme' bedewed tyre has been a large origin successful bedewed races being afflicted by delays truthful agelong that the intermediate tyre is usable arsenic soon arsenic they are started.
A connection from F1 and governing assemblage the FIA added that the caller tyre does not necessitate the usage of tyre heating blankets, which the FIA is trying to signifier retired connected sustainability grounds.
And teams volition assistance measure caller bodywork aimed astatine reducing spray and expanding visibility successful bedewed conditions.
Among different changes agreed were a relaxation of the regularisation of vigor messages betwixt drivers and teams astatine grands prix, and of the usage of 'parc ferme' astatine the sprint events.
Parc ferme is simply a motorsport word describing a strategy by which cars are not allowed to beryllium worked connected by teams beyond a definite constituent of the weekend, different than to regenerate damaged parts and different tiny changes.
The caller attack "allows a greater scope to alteration components that are prone to getting damaged".
A wintertime shut-down play has been introduced for some teams and power-unit manufacturers, mirroring a akin 1 successful the summertime which applies lone to teams
A fig of changes to circuits were besides approved:
- Modifications to Saudi Arabia's Jeddah thoroughfare way to amended visibility connected country entry
- A implicit resurfacing of the Azerbaijan and Miami thoroughfare circuits
- Greater abstraction betwixt pit halt positions astatine Zandvoort successful the Netherlands
- And a caller pit gathering and paddock infrastructure astatine Losail successful Qatar.
The changes are each taxable to support by the FIA's legislative body, the World Motorsport Council, which Ben Sulayem chairs.
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