Today's meeting of the F1 Commission saw the number of permitted internal combustion engines, turbo chargers, MGU-Hs and MGU-Ks increased from 3 to 4.

A number of other minor updates to the 2023 and 2024 technical regulations were also approved by the commission.

Other than the increase to the number of permitted engine components, the time allocated to the grid procedure for a Grand Prix will be increased from 40 to 50 minutes. At certain races, this additional time will be used for the presentation of the drivers to the fans. No doubt with the Brad Pitt movie in mind.

Also, the updated definition of 'working on a car' during a pit stop penalty (Article 54.4.c) that was introduced as a Sporting Directive in March will be included within the Sporting Regulations.

Finally, a specifically dedicated working group within the Financial Advisory Committee (FAC) has developed a proposal for the introduction of an exclusion of costs in respect of certain sustainability initiatives from 2023 onwards, with particular focus on environmental concerns.

Following support from the FAC members and approval of the Commission, certain Sustainability Initiative Costs will now be excluded from the Cost Cap. These exclusions cover, amongst other things, costs associated with installing sustainable infrastructure, auditing and monitoring of Competitors' carbon footprint, donations to charities engaged in the promotion of environmental sustainability projects and carbon offset programmes. The FAC will continue to refine this regulation.

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1. Posted by Pavlo, 26/04/2023 18:55

"Wow! All of the options seems to be easy to misuse to increase cost cap, instead of what some may mean under these rules. Looks like they want more scandals and controversy.
"Sustainable initiatives" - replacing fleet of diesel trucks and promo vehicles with electro; or even refurbishing the whole factory with more modern technologies, which by coincidence are greener.
"auditing and monitoring of Competitors' carbon footprint" may include all kinds of sensors to measure exhaust, but also someone may try to put here development, simulation and testing of the engine itself
- because as one of the values they figured out the CO2 concentration, even if they "monitored how it grew":)
Only thing that would may be difficult to misuse is donations to charities, because charities by definition should produce results equally available to all everyone. But this is also nonsense - what is the point for a sport team living on advertisement to pay to charities, if their sponsors may themselves donate there?"

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2. Posted by Mad Matt, 26/04/2023 13:02

"Doesn't seem particularly fair to increase the allocation part way through the season.... on the other hand is it to make up for adding more Sprint races?"

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3. Posted by kenji, 26/04/2023 0:09

"A very sensible move on the PU front considering the additional work load expected...as for the 'wokie' stuff, well...."

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4. Posted by elsiebc, 25/04/2023 21:18

""Its too expensive for teams to compete so we'll limit how many engines you can use and cap everyone's overall costs. Oh, and by the way we're going to raise the number of engines that you can use, and also mandate certain percieved environmental impacts. So spend more money on things that don't make your car go faster and if you cant do that under the cost cap feel free to spend more. And if you can't afford to reach the cost cap, no biggie. But dont forget to spend money on that there carbon stuff. That's what brings the fans to watch you drive around at the back.""

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