#Vettel super license points drivers#

F1 drivers who finish in the top 12 receive automatic licence renewal for the following year. Consider the following:Īll licences expire after the season's final Grand Prix. It's time the FIA restricts the amount of super licences available by installing a competitive application process for hopeful F1 pilots. Turn on the traction control and even Billy Joel could make it around Jerez enough times to satisfy the governing body. This mileage can be conducted during private testing when cars are not compliant with all F1 regulations. The FIA has made a mockery of its licensing system by granting their stamp of approval to just about any cash-endowed biped who applies, with all due respect to Mr Yuji Ide, of course.Ĭurrent FIA standards require aspiring drivers to complete 300 km in Formula One machinery to qualify for their licence. But South American oil money is not alone to blame. Much has been made of the growing pay-driver pandemic in the world's premier racing series. Yet, even with this next-to-never driving schedule, our family matriarch would need just three months to qualify for her FIA super licence. Since Grandma purchased the silver-trimmed-with-rust coloured chariot 23 years ago, she has averaged roughly 1,300 km per year tooting back and forth to Tuesday Night Bingo. The odometer on my Grandmother's 1991 Toyota Corolla reads just over 30,000 kilometres.

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