#F1 racing 2017 season drivers
#F1 racing 2017 season driver

Now it will only have 4 sets of tires, two dry: Hard and Soft and two wet: Intermediate and Rain. Liberty Media decided to cut costs for the 2022 season, dropped the number of engines per pilot to 4 as it was in the 2017 season. The European season ends sooner as the Russian stage comes before Singapore. Once again we will have 3 races in 3 consecutive weeks (Russia, Singapore and Japan), the last time this happened was in the season of 2018. There was a change in the middle of the championship, now the Hungarian Grand Prix will be before the German Grand Prix. Monza did not renew the contract with Liberty Media, so in 2022 to 2024, the Grand Prix of Italy will be based in Imola, which returns to the calendar after 16 years (at the time it hosted the San Marino Grand Prix). The following twenty-two Grands Prix were run as part of the 2022 World Championship:Ĭircuito de Barcelona-Catalunya, MontmelóĪutodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City Marcus Ericsson replaced Sirotkin in Bahrain as the Russian had been injured. Hulkenberg would have discussions with the owners of the Renault team and would be dismissed in the step of Singapore, and that would enter in its place would be the British Jack Aikten. Honda had problems with Albon that came out midway through the season, his replacement was Nobaru Matsuita, but the Japanese did not complete the rest of the season due to Honda's entry into the Endurance stages, who would enter his seat would be Indonesian Sean Gelael. Sauber would finally be bought by Alfa Romeo, and would compete with the name of the Italian automaker.ĭanish Kevin Magnussen would not be racing for his first season in Formula E, his replacement would be Santino Ferruci, who played some stages in the championship for Haas. After disastrous results at Williams Valtteri Bottas would be relegated to test driver, while the Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne would return to F1 after 4 years. For these events the supplier will allocate two sets of the hardest compound specification, four sets of the medium compound specification and seven sets of the softest compound specification to each driver.Ferrari and Red Bull would make an exchange of drivers, Sebastian Vettel would return to the Austrian team, while Verstappen would go to Maranello. “For the first five events of the 2017 Championship season only, the normal team selection procedure for tyres will not be used as the deadline occurs before pre-season testing. The regulations surrounding the selection of tyres have also been tweaked for the opening rounds with the choice taken out of the teams’ hands. “This is to prevent the stockpiling of spare power unit elements.”

#F1 racing 2017 season driver

“During any single event, if a driver introduces more than one of a power unit element that is subject to penalty, only the last element fitted may be used at subsequent events without further penalty,” the governing body stated.

#F1 racing 2017 season drivers

Meanwhile, the FIA have also closed the loophole that enables teams and drivers to “stockpile” extra engines by introducing multiple power units at one particular race. Once again, the British GP will be back-to-back with the Austrian GP, the first half of four races in July, while Mexico has been paired with the Brazilian GP after being scheduled back-to-back with the US GP this year.Īlthough not yet confirmed, pre-season testing is expected to consist of two four-day events at Barcelona, starting on February 27 and March 7. The season will also start later than in recent seasons with the curtain-raising Australian GP set for March 26, providing the teams with extra preparation time ahead of the 2017 rules reset. However, while the published schedule retains the same record-breaking number of races as this season, the Brazilian, Canadian and German GPs have been listed as being subject to confirmation.

THE FIA, motorsport’s governing body, have released a provisional 21-race calendar for the 2017 Formula 1 season.