|
Do..hot of the press...
F1 teams cannot miss races
February 10, 2010 by joesaward
The FIA says that Formula 1 teams cannot miss any races.
“From a sporting and regulatory point of view, each team that has registered for the championship is obliged to take part in every event of the season. Any failure to take part, even for just one championship event, would constitute an infringement both of the Concorde Agreement and the FIA Regulations” the FIA said in a statement.
The Concorde Agreement apparently has a clause (13.5) which states that if a team has failed to participate in more than three events in the same FIA F1 Championship it is considered to have withdrawn from the championship. This is not apparently a get-out clause, as some have been reading it, as another clause in the agreement (believed to be 4.1) contains an undertaking that each team will participate in every event of the FIA F1 Championship each year for the duration of the term of the agreement. In order to achieve this the cars must be presented for scrutineering and there must be efforts made to ensure that the teams actively take part – on the understanding that they have not been banned; prevented from arriving by genuine force majeure such as war, insurrection, earthquake, riot, fire or flood; or stopped from getting there because of the failure of transportation provided by the commercial rights holder.
Not having the money or not having a finished car is not a good enough excuse, even if a supplier has failed to deliver. However, the three strikes and you are out rule kicks in if a team does fail to make it to each race.
|