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FIA
FIA is the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (English: International Automobile Federation), the world's governing body for all forms of motor sport where four or more wheels are used.
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Masters Historic Formula One Championship is a championship that has old
Formula One
Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...
cars from "the golden era", which caters for
3-litre engine Formula 1 cars, from
1966 to
1985
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The series grew out of the Grand Prix Masters series (not related or to be confused with the short-lived
Grand Prix Masters
Grand Prix Masters was a one-make motor racing series featuring retired Formula One drivers. The inaugural (and sole 2005) event, at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in South Africa, took place on 11–13 November, but the series folded after a t ...
series, a one-make formula series for retired Formula One drivers), which was an alternative to the FIA Thoroughbred GP car championship. With entries falling in TGP and healthier grid being seen at Grand Prix Masters, the FIA awarded Masters Historic Racing the rights to promote the FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship from 2013 to the present day.
Masters Historic Racing is a UK based organisation, headed by race and entrepreneur Ron Maydon, which also operates a number of other historic race categories.
Regulations
* Cars using
Cosworth DFV
The DFV is an internal combustion engine that was originally produced by Cosworth for Formula One motor racing. The name is an abbreviation of ''Double Four Valve'', the engine being a V8 development of the earlier four-cylinder FVA, which had fo ...
engines must have an engine limiter of 10,000 rpm
* All drivers must be presented with a current FIA Historic Technical Passport and be presented in that specification.
* All drivers must be in possession of an International level racing licence.
* Cars must be classed into the following categories in order to enter a race:
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Jackie Stewart
Sir John Young Stewart (born 11 June 1939), known as Jackie Stewart, is a British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland. Nicknamed the "Flying Scot", he competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Cha ...
class: Formula One cars built and raced prior to 31 December 1972
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Emerson Fittipaldi
Emerson Fittipaldi (; born 12 December 1946) is a Brazilian former automobile racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each and the CART championship once.
Moving up from Formula Two, Fittip ...
class: Post–
1972
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, non-ground effect
Formula One car
A Formula One car (also known as an F1 car) is a single-seat, open-cockpit, open-wheel formula racing car with substantial front and rear wings, and an engine positioned behind the driver, intended to be used in competition at Formul ...
s
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Patrick Head
Sir Patrick Michael Head (born 5 June 1946) is a British motorsport executive who is the co-founder and former Engineering Director of the Williams Formula One team. For 27 years from Head was technical director at Williams Grand Prix Engineer ...
class: Post–1972,
ground effect Formula One cars
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Niki Lauda
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda (22 February 1949 – 20 May 2019) was an Austrian Formula One driver and aviation entrepreneur. He was a three-time Formula One World Drivers' Champion, winning in , and , and is the only driver in Formula ...
class: Post–1972, flat bottomed Formula One cars
* Characteristics of events:
** Friday: Untimed Practice (If Available)
** Friday: Timed Qualifying
** Saturday: Race 1
** Sunday: Race 2
* At the end of the championship, there will be four winners, one for each of the four classes.
** Prior to 2020 there were only two champions, Pre and Post 1978, thus combining Stewart and Fittipaldi classes together and the Head and Lauda classes together.
* Points:
** For classes with 3 or more starters in the class: 9–6–4–3–2–1
** For classes with fewer than 3 starters in the class: 6–4
** For classes with 1 starter in the class: 4
* Drivers must complete 75% of the race in order to be classified
2018 Calendar
Champions
External links
FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship at racingrecords.eu
References
2013 establishments in Europe
Formula One
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
Formula racing series
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