The FIA has elevated the quantity of Tremendous License factors allotted to the IndyCar Sequence, opening the door for extra of its drivers to be eligible for a Method 1 race seat.
The Tremendous License was initially designed to make sure drivers couldn’t merely pay for a race seat in F1, needing to earn at the very least 40 factors throughout a three-year interval to earn a Tremendous License that allowed them to race within the class. The allocation of factors was clearly weighted in the direction of the FIA’s single-seater ladder to supply a transparent pathway to F1, however that usually left IndyCar drivers wanting factors.
Now, the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has authorized a rise within the allocation of factors for third to ninth locations within the IndyCar championship standings – with quite a lot of positions doubling the factors acquired – so as “to replicate the rising significance of the class.”
Solely the IndyCar champion earns the total 40 factors required for a Tremendous License, with Method 2 the one different class to supply the identical, though in F2 the highest three all obtain 40 factors.
Second place within the IndyCar Sequence nonetheless earns 30 factors, however third place will now earn 25 factors, up from 20 up to now. The factors for fourth place have doubled from 10 to twenty, whereas fifth place now receives 15 factors, up from eight.
Sixth can be rewarded with 10 factors as an alternative of the earlier six, whereas seventh and eighth locations have additionally seen their factors doubled from 4 and three to eight and 6 respectively. Ninth place additionally receives an additional level – up from two to 3 – whereas tenth place stays allotted a single level.
The modifications deliver IndyCar nearer to the factors allotted to F2, however would nonetheless not have been sufficient to provide Colton Herta a Tremendous License based mostly solely on IndyCar outcomes. Herta will transfer to F2 subsequent season alongside his Cadillac F1 staff check function, and is looking for at the very least six factors to safe his Tremendous License. Underneath the brand new factors allocations, Herta would have been only one level away from the 40 required for a Tremendous License.
