As FIA promised they will improve news service. THis year will happen what I was calling for for very long time. FIA created virtual media centre on its website:

http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1_me.../home_page.aspx

Including those boxes for FIA communications. We all now will have access to exact wording of FIA decisions etc. I am excited about that!

So, those of you who have never been at Media centre of formula one, it seems you are going to get really good and full service.

I am happy. For once to FIA.

Excellent.

So I see there are four stewards, among them Thatthi and Novak.

Very nice. Glad the timings will be clearly available again. For some reason, it was hidden last year, and you had to know the exact web address to access them.

There are four names but there are three stewards for the race.

From among holders of an FIA Super Licence the following officials will be nominated by the FIA :
- Three stewards one of whom will be permanent and appointed the non-voting chairman ;
- A race director ;
- A permanent starter.

FIA can also nominate stewards advisor, so maybe this could be one of them.

Anyhow, Novak is idiot. He has no bloody clue about racing. He is the man stating McLaren might be behind Max Mosley's scandal (I am not saying he is not right ;) ) but he really has no bloody clue about motorsport. He penalised Montoya after Schumacher clash in Malaysia but he is one of Max supporters, blind to every happening around him, the true arselicker....

They have links to the 2007/8 archive, but you need an ID to access them. Makes me suspicious that the juicy stuff will still be hidden away.

Excellent, now someone call Nazir and we have this:

As is Thatti, as is Nazir ...

How come when I want to view the pdf of the press conference it askes me for a username and password?

never mind, it works already

So where are the scrutineering reports?

And these guys will pass judgement on the drivers? Good grief

Still being worded to confuse the masses.

The site still looks and acts like something from the 90's though. I suppose Mosley & friends are too old for the internets?

Doesn't get released until after the weekend.

That makes so much sense.

So where is the stewards report from the diffuser protest ?

It should be here:-

http://fialive.fiacommunications.com/en-GB...s/on_event.aspx

but isn't.....

anyone want to start an over/under on when, if ever, it will appear ?

There used to be a dedicated media room for ages with addresses like this http://fia.com/australiagp/

So FIA basically repainted dog's kennel.

Just going through the fia media centre site, which one is the live timing? The timing info look like the after the fact results, I'm obviously going blind, am stupid....or the site layout sucks...

Ok, the answer was I'm stupid... formula1.com has the live timing, not fia site.

Just browse through this "center" and see nothing about FP...

It takes ages to publish it Shame...

So the first excitement is gone. The lead-time to publishing the results is even worse than printed newspapers and forget the FIA's last year's promise to publish evidence for stewards decisions, such as Trulli's penalty and stewards explanations....

FIA for giving empty promises...

The timing and pitstop info was reasonably fast.

Never read a stewards/technical report before. Kinda interesting. Nice to see this stuff on the FIA's site

I found this bit quite interesting.

The following software versions have been used by the teams during the qualifying sessions:
Car numbers Team Version
1, 2 : Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 1.00.053
3, 4 : Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 1.00.051
5, 6 : BMW Sauber F1 Team 1.00.052
7, 8 : ING Renault F1 Team 1.00.052
9, 10 : Panasonic Toyota Racing 1.00.052
11, 12 : Scuderia Toro Rosso 1.00.050
14, 15 : Red Bull Racing 1.00.050
16, 17 : AT & T Williams 1.00.052
20, 21 : Force India F1 Team 1.00.052
22, 23 : Brawn GP Formula One Team 1.00.052


I assume it refers to the SECU. Didn't realise that the teams were allowed to chose whether or not they wanted to run the latest version.

Can anyone find this for 2009 ?

They have updated the "Media centre" bit with the Malasian GP info, and I can't find the Austrailian 2009 info that was there on Monday.....

So they lock the event info away before publishing the stewards report. So open.

Yea, same here. Pretty upset by that. Gonna have to start saving all the PDF's to my computer now.

This is actually worse than last year, because while they were hidden, you could still access the times from any race.

I really cannot understand the logic of hiding this stuff away.

I've just fired off an email asking how to access past events documents. Will be interesting to see if I get a reply. If you want to do the same the address is admin@fiacommunications.com

It's FIA.

Yes, thats the approved version of the SECU software each team is using. The teams are only allowed to use one of 4 approved versions of the software, at present. The teams have access to all versions.

Ah, thanks.

Are the various versions their own mods of it? I seem to remember plans for teams to be able to modify the software to some extent, from before ECU was introduced... or am I mixing things up?

Hello,

First post on this forum, does anyone have the PDFs that were released after the Australian GP. Seems that the FIA website has moved onto Malaysia and I missed the chance to download all the files.

Thanks in advance.

It looks to be in the 'archive' section, which requires a password.


Direct links still work. (penalties here)


Timing here, but F1 Matrix is far better for that.


Welcome

No, when the software is revised or modified then all the teams have access to that new version.

Did you get any reply from them? Not sure why they have F1 Media Centre Archive under password...

Yes!

Nothing as yet, and I'll be surprised if I do, but you have to try.

Hoi everybody,

Normally I allways take the PDF files from the FIA site.

But, for the GP of Singapore I was in hospital, so I haven't got the files from that race.
Can someone help me please??

Thanks in advance!!

Sorry for my English, I know it is poor....

there was a tread that was discussing methods of retrieving this info, I'll have a look

Thank you!!!

don't know if is of much help but hereit is:
http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?show...6076&hl=pdf

or alternative, have a look at the format of the filename.
ita09_race_classification.pdf
ita09_session2_classification.pdf
ita09_qualifying_classification.pdf
ita09_race_laps.pdf
ita09_media_kit_en.pdf
etc..

replace 'ita' for 'sin', search the new filename in google. don't click the link but use the 'view' in google to see the google's cache and you get:

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cac...r13B2W45Uqtcu8w

ow btw:
No part of these results/data may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, broadcasting or otherwise without prior permission of the copyright holder except for reproduction in local/national/international daily press and regular printed publications on sale to the public within 90 days of the event to which the results/data relate and provided that the copyright symbol appears together with the address shown below.
© 2009 Formula One Administration Ltd, 6 Princes Gate, London, SW7 1QJ, England.

Looking forward of Max suing Google

Quite a useful resource.

Shame they don't provide a PDF for Mosley's score settling and biased decisions.

It works!! Great!! THANKS!!!

Isn't that Bernie's brand.

you are correct. then bernie should sue google, I'll write him an e-mail!