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Well if you want to know about F1 2009 regulations and do not want to read about the interpretations just follow this link and get it from the  FIA site direct. You can search to your hearts delight and like me wonder how much time the technical guys spend working around them.

We will always have different views and each person will have his own opinions about rules made for any sport so make them known and share a few. My interest lies not only in F1 but in MotoGP, Australian V8 and stretch as far as the series run in South Africa know as WesBank Super Series. They all operate under the rule book and having been involved in some of the meetings when regulations are discussed they can become pretty hectic.

I have seen a chairman turn red and committee members wanting to strangle another. These are great fun!!!!!..Especially when some committee members are also competitors and they start looking after their own interest or try to undermine another competitors performance by not approving or agreeing to changes in the regs.

Looking at comments made about the diffusers in FI being used by Toyota and Williams you know there will be sparks flying at the first race in Melbourne and I look forward to it.

So with the actual Formula One 2009 season to start in March I see the FIA Regulations book were studied and Toyota and Williams are playing around with rear diffusers which have other teams grumbling. 

And we still have KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System) which Williams have decided they might only implement after 6 races. So much speculation and guesses but we will have to see the real effect of this in the actual race in Melbourne. Wonder if this will also be available to boost the cars at the start?

One area in which the rules have changed and to which I am very grateful for is in the return of slick tyres. Just a pity they do not implement more than one manufacturer to supply the tyres as well.

Another area of improvement is the allocation of eight engines to a driver for a season, which, exclude the four supplied for testing. I still think they should just allocate 8 engines to each driver, however, if a change of engine is made after qualifying it should not mean a automatic start from the rear of the grid. Once your 8 engines have been used this can then be applied.

The new dimensional regulations should also make the cars look more like the traditional F1 cars we all remember before the “Bull Horns” on the nose cone and “Viking Ears” on the Engine cover appeared……I hope.