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The 2014 Formula One season will be the 65th season of the Formula One World Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula One cars which is recognised by the sport's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. Teams and drivers will contest twenty Grands Prix for the World Drivers' and World Constructors' Championships.

In 2014, the championship will see the introduction of a revised engine formula, in which the 2.4 litre V8 engine configuration—previously used between 2006 and 2013—will be replaced with a new formula specifying a 1.6 litre turbocharged V6 engine that incorporates an energy recovery system into its build. The 2014 season calendar will undergo substantial revisions, with the addition of two new races, the Russian Grand Prix and the Grand Prix of America to be held at the Sochi International Street Circuit in Sochi and the Port Imperial Street Circuit in Weehawken, New Jersey respectively.<. The Austrian Grand Prix will be revived, with the race to be held at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, whilst the Indian Grand Prix will be discontinued for one year.

Signed teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers are scheduled to take part in the 2014 season. However, their participation depends on the teams agreeing to continue competing in the sport under the terms of a new Concorde Agreement.

Team	Constructor	Engine	Race drivers
Caterham F1 Team	Caterham–TBA	TBA	Charles Pic
			TBA
Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari	Ferrari	Fernando Alonso
			TBA
Sahara Force India F1 Team	Force India–Mercedes	Mercedes	Paul di Resta
			TBA
Lotus F1 Team	Lotus–TBA	TBA	TBA
			TBA
Marussia F1 Team	Marussia–Ferrari	Ferrari	TBA
			TBA
McLaren Mercedes	McLaren–Mercedes	Mercedes	Jenson Button
			Sergio Pérez
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	Mercedes	Lewis Hamilton
			Nico Rosberg
Infiniti Red Bull Racing	Red Bull–Renault	Renault	Sebastian Vettel
			TBA
Sauber F1 Team	Sauber–TBA	TBA	TBA
			TBA
Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso–Renault	Renault	TBA
			TBA
Williams F1 Team	Williams–Mercedes	Mercedes	TBA
			TBA

Team changes

• In 2011, former British American Racing team principal Craig Pollock announced the formation of Propulsion Universelle et Recuperation d'Energie (commonly known by its acronym, PURE), and signalled his intentions to enter the sport in 2014 as a customer engine supplier, though as of November 2012, the company had no clients for the 2014 season.
• Cosworth elected not to build an engine to fit the 2014 generation of regulations. This decision prompted Marussia, the only team using Cosworth engines during the 2013 season, to seek out a new engine supplier. They later joined Ferrari's customer programme with Ferrari providing the team with both engine and powertrain for 2014 and beyond.
• Scuderia Toro Rosso secured an agreement with Renault for engines in 2014, ending their seven-year arrangement with Ferrari.
• Williams will part ways with Renault after two seasons, switching to Mercedes power in what the team described as a "long-term deal". The deal came after Renault have publicised their intentions to reduce their engine supply to three teams in 2014.

Driver changes

• Mark Webber will leave Formula One after twelve seasons, the last seven with Red Bull Racing. He will move to the FIA World Endurance Championship, joining Porsche's newly-formed LMP1 team.

List of planned races

The following twenty Grands Prix are currently scheduled to take place in 2014.

Grands Prix contracted for 2014
Grand Prix	Circuit
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi
Grand Prix of America	Port Imperial Street Circuit, New Jersey
Australian Grand Prix	Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne
Austrian Grand Prix	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg
Bahrain Grand Prix	Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir
Belgian Grand Prix	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa
Grande Prêmio do Brasil	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo
British Grand Prix	Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone
Grand Prix du Canada	Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal
Chinese Grand Prix	Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai
Großer Preis von Deutschland	Hockenheimring, Hockenheim
Magyar Nagydíj	Hungaroring, Budapest
Gran Premio d'Italia	Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza
Korean Grand Prix	Korea International Circuit, Yeongam
Malaysia Grand Prix	Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur
Grand Prix de Monaco	Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo
Russian Grand Prix	Sochi International Street Circuit, Sochi
Singapore Grand Prix	Marina Bay Street Circuit, Marina Bay
Gran Premio de España	Valencia Street Circuit, Valencia
United States Grand Prix	Circuit of the Americas, Austin

Calendar changes

• The Grand Prix of America is scheduled to join the calendar, with the race to be hosted at the Port Imperial Street Circuit in Weehawken, New Jersey. The race was originally intended to join the calendar for the 2013 season, but was rescheduled after event organisers fell behind in construction and faced delays in obtaining the necessary permits for the race to take place.
• In July of 2013, it was reported that Red Bull had reached an agreement with Bernie Ecclestone to revive the Austrian Grand Prix after a ten-year absence from the calendar. The race, to be held at the Red Bull Ring, was given a provisional date of July 2014.
• The Hockenheimring is scheduled to return to the calendar to host the German Grand Prix, in keeping with the event-sharing agreement first established in 2008 with the Nürburgring for the two circuits to host the Grand Prix in alternating years. The Hockenheimring last hosted a Formula One Grand Prix in 2012.
• The Indian Grand Prix will not be held in 2014 after organisers sought to have the event brought forward from its October date to April, but expressed concerns about running two races together in quick succession. The race promoters came to an agreement with Bernie Ecclestone whereby the race will not be held in 2014 and will instead return to the calendar in 2015 with an early-season date.
• The calendar will see the addition of the Russian Grand Prix with the race to be held at the Sochi International Street Circuit during the second half of the season. The race will take place on a street circuit to be constructed around the Sochi Olympic Park. It will be the first Russian Grand Prix in a century, and the first time the country has ever hosted a round of the Formula One World Championship. The International Olympic Committee has cautioned that it will use its power to delay the race until 2015 if it feels that construction of the circuit and facilities disrupt preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
• Starting in 2013, the Spanish Grand Prix will alternate between the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona and the Valencia Street Circuit in Valencia. Barcelona will host the 2013 race, which will then move to Valencia in 2014. However, organisers in Barcelona claimed they had "no desire" to share the race with the sister circuit in Valencia, and the Valencian circuit was later reported to be in a serious state of disrepair following episodes of poor maintenance and vandalism.

Changes

Rule changes

Technical regulations

• The 2014 season will see the introduction of a new engine formula, with the sport moving towards a turbocharged, 1.6 litre V6 format with an 8-speed semi automatic gearbox. The rules dictate the use of a ninety-degree engine bank, with fixed crankshaft axis and mounting points for the chassis, while the engines will be limited to 15,000rpm. Individual engine units under the 2014 specifications must last for at least 4,000 km (2,500 mi) before being replaced, in comparison to the pre-2014 engines, which were required to last for just 2,000 km (1,200 mi).
• The Kinetic Energy Recovery System (known from 2009 to 2013 as KERS, and renamed from 2014 as ERS-K) will be incorporated into the design of the engine and its usage increased; its function as a supplementary power source will be taken by the introduction of the heat-based Energy Recovery System (ERS). The ERS unit captures waste heat as it is dispelled from the exhaust turbocharger, using an electrical device known as a Heat Motor Generator Unit. This waste heat is stored as an electrical charge until it is utilised by a complementary system called the Kinetic Motor Generator Unit. This device is connected directly to the drive train to deliver the additional power in the most direct and efficient way. In combination with the ERS-K it will give drivers an additional 161 bhp (120 kW) for thirty-three seconds per lap, compared to the ERS-K units used prior to 2014, which gave drivers 80 bhp (60 kW) for six seconds per lap.
• Teams will be able to use electronic braking devices to managing the braking of the rear wheels as the increased power output of the ERS-K units will make regulating the brake bias much harder than previously.
• The 2014 regulations require the use of lower noses than in previous years, in the interests of safety. The tip of the nose will have to be no more than 185mm above the ground, in comparison to the 550mm allowed in 2012. These regulations were amended in June 2013 so as to completely outlaw the use of the "stepped noses" used in 2012 and 2013, thereby forcing teams to design a car with a genuinely lower nose rather than using the temporary solution.
  • The original rules—first published in August 2011—also called for a variety of bodywork changes aimed at cutting downforce, most notably through the use of narrower front wings, and a shallower angle to the main plane of rear wings. These additional changes were formally abandoned in December 2012, but the requirement that cars be built with a nose no more than 185mm above the ground was retained.
• In order to promote fuel efficiency, fuel will be flow restricted to 100 kg/h above 10,500rpm; below 10,500rpm a formula for the maximum flow must be applied based on the rpm in use.
• The position of the exhaust outlet will change so that it is now angled upwards toward the rear wing instead of downwards to face the rear diffuser so as to make the practice of using exhaust blown diffusers—passing exhaust gasses over the rear diffuser to improve the car's downforce—extremely difficult to achieve.
• The minimum weight of the cars will increase from 642 kg (1,415 lb) to 690 kg (1,520 lb).
• The use of false camera mountings will be banned. Teams had previously exploited a loophole in the regulations that allowed them to add additional pieces of bodywork to the car in the place of camera mountings and take advantage of the aerodynamic benefits. From 2014, this loophole will be closed, with the regulations rewritten to only allow camera montings to be used for cameras.

Sporting regulations

• In order to facilitate the introduction of the engine regulations, the FIA proposed rewriting the sporting regulations with regard to winter testing. Under the proposal, winter testing will be brought forward to January to allow for an additional test if it is deemed necessary, with testing venues relocated away from southern Spain to the Middle East—with the Losail circuit in Qatar and the Sakhir circuit in Bahrain being put forward as candidate venues—to minimise the chances of rain interrupting testing.
• The Young Driver Tests, held to allow teams to evaluate potential drivers, will be abandoned in favor of a return of mid-season testing. Four European venues will each host a two-day test in the week following the Grand Prix held at the circuit.
• On 28 June 2013, the teams agreed upon the introduction of a "penalty points" system for driving offences. Under the system, driving offences would carry a pre-determined points value based on their severity that would be tallied up over the course of a season, with a driver receiving a race ban after accumulating twelve penalty points. Any driver who received a race ban would also receive an additional five penalty points upon their return, as a form of probation to discourage further driving offences.
• Drivers will only be able to use five engines over the course of a season in 2014, down from eight in 2013. Drivers who use a sixth engine will start the race from pit lane, as opposed to the ten-place grid penalty handed down for going over the engine quota in previous season. In the event that individual elements of the engine unit—including the turbocharger, ERS unit or KERS battery—are replaced, drivers will incur a ten-place grid penalty.
• Following a series of high-profile incidents involving tyres throughout the 2013 season that culminated in a string of explosive blow-outs at the British Grand Prix, the FIA passed a resolution granting them the power to change the specifications of the tyres used by competitors with immediate effect should the need arise.
• The pit lane speed limit will be reduced from 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) to 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph).
• Teams will receive an additional set of tyres for the first practice session at each Grand Prix. The extra set of tyres will only be available for the first thirty minutes of the session, to encourage more running during free practice.

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