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GOOAL! SATURDAY VISION, May 7, 2016 7 FORMULA ONE SPECIAL PULL-OUT Basics you need to know about FORMULA ONE 1st= 25 : 2nd = 18 : 3rd = suggests, the safety car is de- 15 : 4th = 12 : 5th = 10 : 6th ployed to ensure safe passage = 8 : 7th= 6 : 8th= 4 : 9th = 2 of the racing cars around the : 10th= 1 track. If a race has to be stopped It is deployed after an ac- before 75% of the distance has cident that would otherwise been completed half points cause the race to be stopped, are awarded. Drivers score but the use of the car allows points for themselves and also the race to continue while the for their team, if both drivers problem is dealt with. from a team fi nish in the points Laps under the safety car still both scores count towards the count towards race distance. constructors’ tally. When it is time for the safety Penalties: Blocking a car to leave the circuit, it will rival driver, causing a crash, turn off its yellow lights — rac- speeding in the pit lane or ing then resumes when the jumping the start can land leader crosses the safety car a driver with a penalty. The line (ahead of the start-fi nish penalties are handed out by line). the race offi cials known as In exceptional circumstances, stewards, who can dole out such as heavy rain, a race may seven types. be started behind the safety Safety Car: As its name car. Lewis Hamilton celebrates winning his third F1 world title with victory at US Grand Prix last year. Hamilton is struggling this year F1 HAS A RICHLotus again led the way in commercial rights, turning the turnedHISTORY on Ecclestone years Turbochargers banned died at the wheel of an F1 car Schumacher and Ferrari, who 1978 with the introduction of sport into a billion-dollar global later). In return FISA removed To combat the phenomenal since then. The FIA introduced won an unprecedented fi ve ground-effects technology (us- business. In 1971 he bought its sanction from races. An un- power of cars, restrictions were measures to slow the cars and consecutive drivers’ champi- ing side skirts and underbody the Brabham team and so easy truce came with the 1981 brought in and eventually improve their safety. onships and six consecutive design to give the car phenom- gained a seat on the Formula Concorde Agreement. turbochargers were banned But purists continued to constructors’ championships enal grip, albeit temperamen- One Constructors’ Association In 1980, Alan Jones and the altogether in 1989. argue the race was more about between 1999 and 2004. Schu- tally) and Mario Andretti was (FOCA) and in 1978 became Williams team dominated and McLaren and Williams the technicians and designers macher was a brilliant driver supreme as he won six of the its president. Until Ecclestone, in 1981 Nelson Piquet took the continued to rule the roost in than drivers, and like many but his habit of pushing rules 16 races. circuit owners controlled title by one point with victory the 1990s. In all, McLaren won other sports, a few teams and sportsmanship to the limit But the year was again many aspects of the sport; he at the U.S Grand Prix. 16 championships (seven con- dominated. McLaren, Williams, made him a hard man to warm marred by a tragedy as team- persuaded the teams of their 1982 seemed set to be structors’, nine drivers’) in that Renault (formerly Benetton) to, and that allied to his success mate Ronnie Peterson was worth and the value of negoti- centered on a rift between period, while Williams matched and Ferrari won every World further caused problems for killed at Monza. This marked ating as a coordinated unit. Ferrari’s Gilles Villeneuve and them with 16 titles of their own Championship from 1984 until the sport’s popularity. Viewing the beginning of the end for In 1979 FISA (Fe’de’ration Didier Pironi but Villeneuve (nine constructors’, seven driv- 2008. The soaring costs of For- fi gures dropped and concerns the legendary Lotus team and Internationale du Sport was killed at Zolder. Two ers’). But the rivalry between mula One widened the chasm grew for the sport’s future was their last championship- Automobile) was formed and months later, in practice for the Prost and Senna ended in between the big four and the given the increasing diffi culty winning year. almost immediately clashed German Grand Prix, Pironi was 1993 with Prost’s retirement smaller independents. Between for any new entrants to make with FOCA over revenues and so badly injured that he never and then in 1994 Senna died 1990 and 2008 28 teams came an impression. Schumacher’s Billion-dollar business regulations. Matters deterio- raced again. at Imola. His death was a and went, few making more retirement in 2006 coincided In the early 1970s, Bernie rated to the extent FOCA boy- From then on turbos, which watershed, in that it led to than an ephemeral mark. with the sport again becoming Ecclestone rearranged the cotted a race and threatened fi rst appeared in 1977, came to considerable increases in safety The most dominant fi gures more competitive on the track. management of Formula One’s a breakaway (tactics that were rule the roost. standards — no driver has during this time were Michael Courtesy of ESPN.

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