1994 Sporting & Technical Regulations of F1 World Championship
At that time the number of the teams which could participate in F1 championship was not limited. Each team should be represented by two cars or one. But only 30 cars could participate in qualifying (if there were more than 30 cars a pre-qualifying was held) and only 26 of them could start in the race.
As a rule, Grand Prix week-end consisted of three days: Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
On Friday and Saturday were held (on each day): free practice and timed practice. On free practice the track was opened for the pilots (with 15 minutes break) for 1 hour and 30 minutes, pilots had 23 laps to practice the circuit and tune their cars. On timed practice (which is also called qualifying) pilots had 12 laps and one hour to set the fastest time. The places at the starting grid distributed by the results of two qualifying sessions (on Friday and Saturday) - the pilot who got the best time went to the first place (it's called pole position), who set the second time went to the second place of the starting grid (which was also at the first row) and so on... If the pilot exceeded the number of laps in free practice, he was losing corresponding number of laps in qualifying. If this thing happened in timed practice pilot was losing his session result.
On Sunday were held: warm-up and race. Warm-up is a half an hour practice session where pilots chose the race set-up. The race, according the rules, should last not more than two hours (it's necessary for the TV schedule). Besides there was restriction of race distance - it had to be not shorter than 305 km and not longer than 325 km (however every rule has an exception, this had and has Monaco GP with its 260 km of race distance).
- Here you can see 1994 Brazilian GP official schedule -
The winner of the race recived 10 points, the pilot who finished second - 6 points, the third one - 4 points, fourth - 3 points, fifth - 2 points and sixth - only a point. Other finishers didn't recive anything. The pilot that have scored more points was becoming a champion. And also team that scored more points was becoming a constructor's champion. If two or more pilots-candidates or teams-candidates for the champion title got the same number of points, the pilot or team who's gotten more wins (second or third, or fourth, or fifth, or sixth places) was becoming a champion.
The F1 car, according the technical regulations, was and is: "an automobile designed solely for speed races on circuit or closed courses". There was also a definition of automobile: "a land vehicle running on at least four non-aligned complete wheels, of which at least two are used for steering and at least two for propulsion".
Were allowed 4-stoke engines, without any kind of supercharge. Engine capaticy had not to exceed 3500 cc. Not more than 12 cylinders, with 5 or less vales for each, were permited to use.
The weight of the car had not to be less then 505 kg. The weight included the weight of the car with all liquids, except fuel. The fuel tank contained up to 200 liters of high quality fuel.The ruels also fixed some dimensions of the car, like overall width - 2000 mm - and overall height - 1000mm. Overall leight wasn't limited. Besides that the dimesions and the disposition of wings and diffusers were determined.
As you know, in the beginning of 1994 FIA made some changes in technical regulations, like banning of electronical aids and allowing of refueling during the race, but also FIA had limited the number of tires that could use one driver during the Grand Prix with 7 sets of slick tires (the number of rain tires was unlimited like before).
These are the main regulations which were in force before 1994 season had started.
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TBFOC, 2003.
