Clause 7.1
... dictates the rule-making process. This must include technical rules which must be agreed by the Technical Working
Group with 80% of the members in favour of the new rulers. The rules must them be agreed by the F1 Commission.
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Clause 7.5 (c) (II)
For the purpose of 7.5 (c), 'measures' means measures which:
- are designed to reduce the performance of the car, and
- cause the least prejudice to the competitors in the circumstances, and
- make changes to the aerodynamics in priority to changes to other parts of the car.
Clause 7.5 (d)
The World Motorsport Council shall consult the F1 Technical Working Group before forming an
opinion as to the performance of the cars or introducing any measures under this clause 7.5.
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When would these safety measures be called for? A document about the F1 commission probably
has similar wording to Clause 7.5:
If measures become necessary due to increase in performance of the cars such as
to endanger the public, trackside workers or drivers, the FIA may, should the F1
technical Working Group fail to do so, propose the measures which will be decided
by the Motor Sport Council in the event the F1 Commission should fail to do so
within a certain delay.
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Probably regarding 7.5 (c), Max Mosely says:
There is a clause in the Concorde agreement that says we cannot change
the engine or the transmission or anything that affects the performance
of them without the unanimous agreement of the teams.
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Probably regarding 7.5 (d), Max Mosely gives a lengthy account of the process:
My third point is the rules. Now there has been endless discussion, endless confusion but we’ve now
reached a point where on Tuesday next, Tuesday the sixth of July, Charlie Whiting is going, on behalf
of the World Motorsport Council, to give formal notice to the technical working group under the terms
of article 7.5 of the Concorde Agreement that they must produce proposals for slowing the cars.
The decision to do that was taken by the World Motorsport Council on the 30th of June, and it was
taken unanimously, and it was taken on the basis of evidence that I think some of you have seen
and a lot of more evidence that the speed of the cars is now dangerously fast. We cannot afford
to continue to take this risk.
Now if we follow the procedures of the Concorde Agreement, the technical working group have two
months in which to produce proposals to slow the cars. We then have to decide whether we think
those proposals are adequate. If we think they are not, we can ourselves give the teams three
alternative, three different proposals or packages of proposals from which they must chose one.
If, within 45 days - sorry this is a bit tedious but it’s important - if within 45 days they
have not chosen one of those packages, we can then impose a set of measures and those measures
come into force automatically within… they must not come in before three months, but any moment
after three months they come into force. That means that, if we follow the whole procedure through,
and they would know… and they were unable to produce something, they would know what we were doing,
third week of October and it would come into force towards the end of January.
Now of course if they produce a satisfactory proposal within the next two months, that
would be quicker. I think the chance of them producing a proposal is remote because there
are ten teams, all the technical directors of the teams constitute the technical working
group, and those ten people have to agree by a majority of at least eight votes, so eight
to one, or to eight to two, before anything can come in, it has to be an eighty per cent majority.
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