Car Operation

All F2 cars will be transported to the events by MSV.

All F2 cars will be run exclusively by MSV personnel at the circuits, with each car being run by one highly skilled and trained mechanic who will run that car throughout the season.

All mechanics will have substantial experience and will undergo specialist training on the F2 Car and its operation. Drivers are welcome to recommend mechanics and F2 will give due consideration to such recommendations but the appointment of Mechanics will be for F2 to make at its sole discretion and on its normal terms of engagement.

The driver's mechanic will remain dedicated to the driver's F2 Car throughout the season, to the extent that it is in the reasonable control of F2.

Cars will be operated in groups of three, with a very experienced race engineer looking after each group of 3 drivers. These engineers will rotate to a different group of 3 drivers for the next event to ensure equality.

All Race Engineers will undergo a comprehensive training programme during which they will work with an official F2 test driver and the car designers to gain experience of the response of the F2 car to all permitted changes.

Drivers are not prohibited from bringing other technical personnel to events and tests if they wish to do so, including a race engineer.  However any such other personnel will not be permitted to work on the car at any time or communicate with the driver during sessions.  One person may however join the driver at his official debriefs with his F2 Race Engineer. In Tests there is no restriction on drivers communicating with other technical personnel.

The allocation of the three drivers to a Race Engineer will be on a principle of having a fair spread of driver performance, so the group would include a driver broadly from the front, middle and back third of the field.  The groups will be determined before the final Test from previous test results.  F2 reserves the right to make changes to group composition should exceptional circumstances prevail.

During practice and qualifying sessions, the engineer will be available to the first driver to pit that requires his attention. If another of his drivers pits he will divide his attention equally between them.