Next season’s technical regulation changes mark the first steps towards Ross Brawn’s vision of what Formula 1 cars should be from an engineering perspective.
Following Saturday's press conference at Jerez - in which the main cost-cutting rule changes for the 2009 and 2010 MotoGP were outlined (see separate story) - the FIM has today (Sunday) released the full official version of the regulation changes, as agreed by the Grand Prix Commission.
The Motocross/SuperMoto Grand Prix Commission - composed of Wolfgang Srb, president of the CMS/FIM, Giuseppe Luongo, president of Youthstream, and Takanao Tsubouchi, MSMA secretary general - has decided to introduce the following changes to the Regulations, all for application as from 1.01.2009:
Nico Rosberg's Formula 1 career is in danger of petering out before it has even really got into top gear, fear two former grand prix stars, as even the young German himself has admitted that without the radical rule changes for 2009 he 'would have lost faith long ago'.