Formula 1: FIA Tightens Overtaking Rules and Penalty Options

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Published: October 15, 2011

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Formula One’s governing body has finally moved to more tightly define the one-move rule and has even given stewards more power to deal with on-track incidents.

To the uninitiated, this might seem like a logical and sensible thing to do.

To those of us who follow the sport, however, it is as unexpected as waking up with your head sewn to the carpet.

The FIA is not an organisation renowned for making sense.

They can describe the size of a front wing end plate to the nearest millimetre in any given dimension. The same goes for the engine specifications, gearbox or any one of a hundred different features of the car.

When it comes to what’s allowed on track, however, the rules are incredibly vague.

And that’s the great thing about F1—it doesn't make sense, but it works.

If one looks at the sporting regulations governing F1, the section on penalties for breaches of driver protocol is three times longer than the section defining those protocols (719 words for what happens when an incident occurs and 260 words describing what a driver can’t do).

It’s easy to imagine the FIA brains making decisions about F1 rules in a room far removed from the realities of life.

The air is blue with smoke from their cigarettes, and the committee is headed by the slightly mad uncle who sits in a corner and laughs hysterically for no apparent reason.



If they make the rules sufficiently vague, it promotes innovation and lateral thinking. Once that occurs, they change the rules to squash the innovation again—as is the case with blown diffusers.

 

As it stood, the rule governing what was allowable to prevent overtaking was covered was by the following section of the sporting regulations:

"20.2 Manoeuvres liable to hinder other drivers, such as more than one change of direction to defend a p...
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