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Abstract This article aims to explain from a legal-regulatory point of view why, in order to protect the credibility of motorsport, it is necessary to clarify what happened in 2008 and on what are the legal points on which such action can be based. The 2008 World Championship and the new circumstances which have arisen. The 2008’s Formula One World Championship has always been considered as one of the most exciting and controversial for several reasons: its epilogue at the last Grand Prix, the victory of Lewis Hamilton by only one point to the Brazilian Felipe Massa, but especially for the occurrence of one of the biggest scandals in the history of motorsport: The Crashgate, which involved the F1 Renault team and which had a substantial impact on the final results of that year. Talking about the Crashgate alone, would require much more than an article and for this reason we refer to all the official documents about this matter. The relevant point to extract from this fact is th...

  Abstract Starting from an analysis of the new set of rules amended for the 2023 Formula One season, this article will try to find if these new prescriptions will be able to solve some of the problems related to the previous season or if they will suffer of the same weaknesses. The new rules for 2023 Due to the big regulations change provided for the 2022 season, there were some areas that needed to be addressed in order to solve some issues related to the last championship. In addition to this, Liberty Media is always trying to find new ways to improve entertainment. This background led to a series of regulatory variations for the upcoming Formula 1 season. Starting from the technical changes, one of the most important modification is related to car’s height. This year, the minimum height for the car’s floor needs to be at least 15 mm above the ground. This measure was necessary to avoid the phenomena called “porpoising”, which caused a lot of instability issues for most of...

  Abstract Starting from an analysis of the F1 Financial Regulations and the recent regulatory breach done by F1 Red Bull team, this article has the aim to understand why the current system is not able to be really effective in formula one's financial monitoring and how it could be improved.                                                  Photo by José Pablo Domínguez on Unsplash The Budget cap and the F1 Financial Regulations The Budget cap is one of the most relevant additions to the new set of regulation created to establish a new era in Fomula One history.  The budget cap and its procedures were introduced by FIA’s Financial Regulations from the 2021 F1 season. The aim of the Financial Regulations is to improve the financial sustainability of Formula One teams, meanwhile ensuring the long-term viability of the Championship and mitigating the gap...

Abstract After a brief analysis of what happened with the retirement of Daniel Ricciardo in the Formula 1 Monza Gp, this article will focus on the rules and the procedures related to the safety car deployment, trying to un derstand if they work and, if not, what changes are needed. What Happened? The 2022 Formula One Italian GP was one of the highly anticipated GP of the season on one of the most iconic circuit of motorsport. In the last stages of the race, during lap 47, the n.#3 car driven by Daniel Ricciardo ended his race, due to a failure, and the Aussie driver parked his car in the grass area just before the second Lesmo corner. The spot and the position of the car made necessary the use of marshals and vehicles on the racetrack to remove his McLaren. Although the situation was clear, the race direction waited a long amount of time before deploying the safety car and start the procedure. In addition to this , the pace car failed to exit in front of the leader and this caus...

Abstract Alla luce di quanto verificatosi durante il GP di F1 d’Olanda 2022, risulta opportuno analizzare l’accaduto, al fine di vagliare criticamente il dettato delle F1 Sporting Regulation e quanto deciso dalla commissione di gara, con lo scopo di comprendere criticità e prospettive per il futuro. Il Fatto La questione fattuale da cui muove questo articolo è rinvenibile in quanto accaduto durante il Gp d’Olanda, valido per il campionato mondiale 2022 di Formula 1, svoltosi presso il circuito di Zandvoort. L’episodio si è verificato al giro 44 quando Yuki Tsunoda, pilota della scuderia Alpha Tauri, dopo una sosta ai box, ha fermato la vettura ai margini della pista, subito dopo curva 5. A tale circostanza la commissione di gara ha reagito inserendo il regime di Virtual Safety Car [1] . Il pilota nipponico, dopo un concitato scambio di team radio con il muretto dei box è ripartito e dopo una sosta per un cambio gomme, si è di nuovo fermato ai margini della pista, al giro 48, ques...

                                                                                Abstract The loss of Ayrton Senna, the 1 st of May 1994, was one of saddest and most crucial moment in the history of Motorsport. Let understand what happened and why this event changed so drastically motor racing.                                (All the rights on this images are reserved to www.autorevue.cz) The Imola Grand Prix 1994, a sad weekend that changed everything The Imola Grand Prix 1994 was undoubtly one of the most dramatic, either one of the most ground changing, weekend in all the history of Motorsport. There were twelve years since a driver loss his life on a circuit, and that was at least an astonishing result ...