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The 2015 Formula One season will be the 66th 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. Twenty drivers representing ten teams will contest twenty Grands Prix, starting in Australia on 15 March and ending in Abu Dhabi on 29 November as they compete for the World Drivers' and World Constructors' Championships. Lewis Hamilton is the defending Drivers' Champion after securing his second title at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Mercedes will begin the season as the defending Constructors' Champions, having secured their first championship title at the 2014 Russian Grand Prix.

Signed teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers are currently signed to take part in the 2015 Formula One World Championship. Following crippling financial problems which forced Caterham to miss the 2014 United States and Brazilian Grands Prix, their entry in the 2015 season was cast into doubt; however, a provisional entry list that was released in November 2014 included the team.

Nat.	Team	Constructor	Engine	Tyre	No.	Nat.	Drivers
	CF1 Caterham F1 Team	Caterham-Renault	Renault	P	TBA		TBA
					TBA		TBA
	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari	Ferrari	P	5		Sebastian Vettel
					7		Kimi Räikkönen
	Sahara Force India F1 Team	Force India-Mercedes	Mercedes	P	11		Sergio Pérez
					27		Nico Hülkenberg
	Lotus F1 Team	Lotus-Mercedes	Mercedes	P	8		Romain Grosjean
					13		Pastor Maldonado
	McLaren Honda	McLaren-Honda	Honda	P	TBA		TBA
					TBA		TBA
	Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	Mercedes	P	6		Nico Rosberg
					44		Lewis Hamilton
	Infiniti Red Bull Racing	Red Bull-Renault	Renault	P	3		Daniel Ricciardo
					26		Daniil Kvyat
	Sauber F1 Team	Sauber-Ferrari	Ferrari	P	9		Marcus Ericsson
					TBA		Felipe Nasr
	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso-Renault	Renault	P	55		Carlos Sainz
					TBA		Max Verstappen
	Williams Martini Racing	Williams-Mercedes	Mercedes	P	19		Felipe Massa
					77		Valtteri Bottas

New entries process

In December 2013, the FIA announced its intentions to open the grid up to more entries, asking for expressions of interest from what it dubbed "competitive teams" willing to commit to the championship until the 2020 season. Three applications were received, including a bid from Gene Haas, co-owner of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team Stewart-Haas Racing; an entry submitted from Romania, and run in conjunction with former Jordan, Midland, Spyker, Force India and HRT manager Colin Kolles; and a third from Zoran Stefanović, a Serbian aerospace engineer who had previously attempted to join the grid for the 2010 and 2011 Formula One seasons under the name Stefan Grand Prix. The bidding process was delayed amidst reports that the FIA had only been looking to add one team to the grid, but that the first two bids were equally viable. Haas' entry, Haas F1, was the successful candidate, but Haas later deferred his entry until the 2016 season. Bernie Ecclestone announced the Romanian entry—named as Forza Rossa Racing—had been accepted independently of Haas, but the team was not included on provisional entry list for the 2015 season.

Team changes

• Honda will return to Formula One as an engine supplier, providing McLaren with a V6 engine and Energy Recovery System package, ending the team's twenty-year partnership with Mercedes-Benz. Honda had previously supplied McLaren from 1988 until 1992, when Honda ended their engine supply program. The company returned to the sport as an engine supplier in 2000, providing British American Racing and Jordan Grand Prix with engines until they purchased the former in 2006 and competed as a constructor until 2008.
• Lotus will change engine suppliers, ending their association with Renault in favour of a deal with Mercedes.
• Following the 2014 Russian Grand Prix, Marussia went into administration, missing the final three races of the 2014 season. The team briefly appeared on the provisional entry list under the name "Manor F1", but in November 2014, administrators announced that the team would cease trading and close down.

Driver changes

• Sebastian Vettel will leave Red Bull Racing at the end of the 2014 season after fifteen years with the team and its wider junior development programme to join Ferrari in the place of Fernando Alonso. Red Bull promoted Daniil Kvyat from Toro Rosso to fill the seat vacated by Vettel.
• With Kvyat promoted and Jean-Éric Vergne electing to leave the team after the season was completed, Toro Rosso's driver line-up was completely overhauled. In their place, the team chose reigning Formula Renault 3.5 Series champion Carlos Sainz, Jr., the son of two-time World Rally Champion Carlos Sainz; and 2014 FIA Formula Three runner-up Max Verstappen—the son of former driver Jos Verstappen—who will become the youngest driver to make his Formula One début at the age of 17 years, 164 days when he starts the 2015 season.
• Marcus Ericsson will leave Caterham at the end of the 2014 season to join Sauber. He will be partnered by GP2 Series regular and former Williams test driver Felipe Nasr. As a result of the deals with Ericsson and Nasr, Esteban Gutiérrez and Adrian Sutil lost their seats.

Season calendar

The following twenty Grands Prix are currently scheduled to take place in 2015.

Round	Grand Prix	Nat.	Circuit	Date
1	Australian Grand Prix		Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne	15 March
2	Malaysian Grand Prix		Sepang International Circuit, Kuala Lumpur	29 March
3	Bahrain Grand Prix		Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir	5 April
4	Chinese Grand Prix		Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai	19 April
5	Spanish Grand Prix		Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona	10 May
6	Monaco Grand Prix		Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo	24 May
7	Canadian Grand Prix		Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal	7 June
8	Austrian Grand Prix		Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	21 June
9	British Grand Prix		Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone	5 July
10	German Grand Prix		Nurburgring,Nurburg	19 July
11	Hungarian Grand Prix		Hungaroring, Budapest	26 July
12	Belgian Grand Prix		Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot	23 August
13	Italian Grand Prix		Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza	6 September
14	Singapore Grand Prix		Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore	20 September
15	Japanese Grand Prix		Suzuka Circuit, Suzuka	27 September
16	Russian Grand Prix		Sochi Autodrom, Sochi	11 October
17	United States Grand Prix		Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas	25 October
18	Mexican Grand Prix		Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City	1 November
19	Brazilian Grand Prix		Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	15 November
20	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix		Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi	29 November
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Calendar changes

• The German Grand Prix is set to return to the Nürburgring, in accordance with the event-sharing agreement established between the Nürburgring and the Hockenheimring in 2008. The Nürburgring had previously hosted the race in 2013 and so was scheduled to host it again in 2015, but the provisional calendar left the event-sharing agreement unresolved.
• The Mexican Grand Prix is scheduled to return to the Formula One calendar for the first time since 1992. The race is to be held at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez circuit located in the centre of Mexico City, which also was the location of all of the Mexican Grands Prix in previous decades. The circuit will be substantially reconfigured to accommodate the sport's return.

Regulation changes

Technical regulations

• The number of power units that a driver may use in a season will be reduced from five in 2014 to four in 2015.
• The rules regarding the points-trading system for engine development that were introduced in 2014 will change, with the manufacturers allowed to perform half the development permitted in 2014; the development will be halved again in 2016.
• Following the backlash over "ugly" nose designs in 2014, the FIA moved to amend the rules surrounding nose designs for the 2015 season. Noses will now be lower than in 2014, retaining a minimum cross section, but they must taper to a point at a fixed linear rate, effectively outlawing the dramatic finger shapes seen in 2014 in favour of a more gradual shape. Furthermore, the design of the nose must be symmetrical and consistent with the centreline of the car, thereby banning the more exotic designs, such as the "twin-tusk" approach used by Lotus on the E22 chassis.

Sporting regulations

• The procedure for restarting a race after the safety car has been deployed will change in 2015. Instead of the traditional single-file rolling restart with the pace controlled by the race leader, the drivers will return to the starting grid for a standing restart controlled by the race director. The exception will be if the race is in the last five laps, in which case a rolling restart will be used.
• The partial ban on pit-to-car communication introduced at the 2014 Singapore Grand Prix will be extended to include a blanket ban on sharing technical data between team and driver, such as specific fuel consumption settings.

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