FIA could put brakes on F1

Concerns have been aired recently by drivers due to rising speeds. Advances in aerodynamics, coupled to the performance gains caused by the tyre war between Bridgestone and Michelin, have caused lap times to drop dramatically as cornering speeds have escalated. Mosley says that the time to act is fast approaching.

"We are looking very carefully at possibly using powers that we have under the Concorde Agreement to reduce the performance of the cars," Mosley told the Reuters news agency. "If we conclude that the cars are too fast, then we can give notice to the teams under the Concorde Agreement which requires the technical working group to come up with proposals for slowing the cars. And they have to do that within a limited time. If they don't come up with the proposals, we have the right to impose something.

"It may be that we're worrying unnecessarily but it's all starting to look as though maybe we have got to do something. A lot of the teams have given us very accurate data. We can compare speeds, particularly in the high speed corners, with a year ago and that enables us to do it quite accurately."

Mosley can give the F1 Technical Working Group a two month deadline to come up with measures to address the situation, or else the FIA can suggest its own.

He added: "If they don't do this adequately, in our judgement obviously, then we give the technical working group three alternative packages of measures and they have to choose one of the three."