12-Jul-08: The FIA Release New F2 Details
Welcome to F1 Minute for the 12th July 2008.
The FIA have given us a few more details about the F2 series they announced recently. The idea is to encourage more young drivers to the sport through a low-cost feeder series, and the tender process is now open for manufacturers to become the supplier of the single-chassis series. The calendar has also been released and information about how a race weekend will stack up. The series will feature across 10 weekends between April and September in Europe, and there’ll be an hour of free practice, qualifying and a 175 km race across just Saturday and Sunday.
There will also be three one-day test events before, and three one-day events during the season. Competitors can enter two drivers but must be signed up for the whole season, and it looks like the FIA are after a minimum grid of 14 cars – which means at least 7 teams.
All this for 200,000 Euros per car.
That’s it for today, I’ll be back tomorrow with another F1 Minute.
Steven Roy on Mon, 14th Jul 2008 16:56
Every time I learn something about the new F2 it gets worse. What promising young driver is going to commit his future to a championship when he only gets three days in the car before he has to race. Max really has to understand that the cost (finacial or environmental) of designing and building cars is massivley more than the cost of a few days testing. If they tested 30 days a season it would not make that much difference.
Christine on Tue, 15th Jul 2008 08:04
Also, if it’s a competitor to GP2 and wants to run on race weekends alongside the F1 teams - is there room in a circuit’s schedule for another set of support races?
Silverstone’s schedule seemed pretty jam packed to me, the cars got going first thing and didn’t stop until they were chucking everyone out.