GloryDayz:
It will be interesting to see whom NASCAR's Gene Haas (Stewart-Haas) partners with in order to field an F1 car in 2015. Teams spend around $400 million per car each season for 16 races. FIA believes it needs a cost cap of $250 million per car in 2015. This way they will have more competition across the grid.
One regulation change:
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This year, the FIA Formula One World Championship is set for a raft of radical technical regulation changes. From 2014 onwards, the cars will be powered by avant-garde powertrain technology, with a powerful turbocharged internal combustion engine coupled to sophisticated energy recovery systems.
Power output will be boosted to levels not seen in the sport in over five years, however, two types of energy will propel the cars. The internal combustion engine will produce power through consumption of traditional carbon-based fuel, while electrical energy will be harvested from exhaust and braking by two motor generator units. The two systems will work in harmony, with teams and drivers balancing the use of the two types of energy throughout the race.
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Jenson Button drives the McLaren Mercedes. Love him. He was the 2009 Formula 1 World Champion.
Edit: The radical rule changes were made this season because of recent dominance of Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, who has won the last four drivers' Formula 1 World Championship.