Clause 10.1
Only a constructor (defined in Schedule 3) may enter a car, unless clause 10.4 applies.
Clause 10.2
... is an undertaking to be bound by and to respect the terms of the Concorde Agreement.
Clause 10.3
Each competitor shall participate in each Event with the number of cars entered by it for
the FIA F1 Championship, of which such Event forms part. In default, the competitor concerned
shall subject as herein provided be liable to make a payment (a "Payment") to such Promoters in
accordance with Schedule 9 hereto unless the F1 Commission decide to cancel the requirement for such
competitor to make the Payment or to reduce the amount of the Payment to be made.
Clause 10.4
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Clause 10.5
Each competitor is required to pay to FIA a fee for a superlicence for each car to cover the management fees of FIA.
Clause 10.6
Imposes a limit on the number of cars which may participate; priority is to be given to those who have participated in earlier years.
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Probably relating to Clause 10.6, the Concorde Agreement has an upper limit of 12 teams (24 cars).
If less than 10 teams are in F1, several issues arise:
- payments to teams in Schedule 10 assume at least 10 teams.
- to keep numbers of cars high enough to satisfy promoters, teams are balloted (lottery) to run third cars.
This 'third car' issue is described by Paul Stoddart:
When we lost Prost, we had twelve teams and then we had eleven, then we lost Arrows
we now had ten teams. Were we to go below ten teams, we'd breach all kinds of regulations
within the Concorde Agreement, the governing document of F1. In doing so, we would expose
ourselves, if we fall below twenty cars, to the need, and it is quite clearly described in
Concorde, to run non-points scoring third cars, and the way it would happen is as follows:
Or one - either way. If it's one, then the FIA ballots two of the remaining competitors to
put two non-points scoring, non-podium or press conference participating cars into the field.
If it had been two of us it would be four ballots, four cars would come out.
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