Newsgroup: it.sport.formula1.moderato
Titolo: [ENG] A very positive meeting

Source: 
grandprix.com
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns16811.html
The first meeting of the FIA's new sporting working group took place on
Wednesday in Barcelona with the meeting involving Charlie Whiting and
representatives from the various teams. According to our sources those
present included Stefano Domenicali (Ferrari), Davey Ryan (McLaren),
Richard Cregan (Toyota), Steve Nielsen (Renault), Tim Newton (Williams),
Beat Zehnder (BMW Sauber), Ron Meadows (Honda), Jonathan Wheatley (Red
Bull Racing), Andrew Stevenson (MF1), Mick Ainsley-Cowlishaw (Super
Aguri), Massimo Rivola (Scuderia Toro Rosso) and David Lapworth of
Prodrive.
According to the FIA Sporting regulations for 2008 this body is tasked
with producing changes to the sporting regulations based on majority
votes. If the question relates to the design of the car the majority  
will
decide the matter if there is more than 18 months before the change  
takes
effect and unanimous voting will be used in it is under 18 months. Thus
decisions for 2008 must be made by June 30 this year.
With that in mind the delegates at the meeting were keen to get some
rules sorted out quickly so that the new F1 Commission, which will soon
be chosen by the World Motor Sport Council, will be able to accept the
proposals in the time available.
There were a number of votes taken with the teams including a  
proposal to
push back the date by which engines must be homologated to March 2007.
This was voted through with only Ferrari and the two Red Bull teams
voting against. A suggestion that the three year homologation of engines
should be increased to five years was voted down by eight to four with
Prodrive, Ferrari and the two Red Bull teams wanting the change but the
others rejecting it.
The idea of having ballast as penalties rather than grid position
penalities was also voted down by the same margin and everyone then
agreed that standard ECUs should be used in testing as well as  
racing. At
the end of the meeting, however, there was a big change when McLaren
proposed that the idea of engine homologation be abolished completely.
This was voted through with eight teams in favour and four against.
The process seems to have gone very well with teams showing much
agreement than has been the case for many years. The proposals put
forward will now go on to the F1 Commission but FIA President Max Mosley
recently wrote to the manufacturers saying that the proposals of the
Sporting Working Group would only be rejected by the F1 Commission and
the World Council if that was in the "overall interests of the Formula 1
World Championship or of motor sport in general."
There is no reason to assume that the decisions made are worthy of  
change
and it is a very positive sign that the new FIA system seems to be
working as it was designed to do.
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 This was voted through with eight teams in favour and four against.
Centralina standard in modo da introdurre solo le menate elettroniche 
gradite all'autorità e libertà sul motore.
D'accordissimo.
Ci conto.

 working as it was designed to do.
Sistema che fa tra l'altro giustizia di una serie di indiscrezioni che
alla prova dei fatti si sono dimostrati del tutto prive di consistenza.
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