The FIA's World Motor Sport Council has implemented several changes to F1's sporting and technical rules at its meeting in Paris on Wednesday. In a bid to improve engine reliability, a weak point this season for F1's manufacturers, the rules regarding the current power unit limits have been tweaked. Teams will now be permitted to undertake temporary changes to their power units in order to avoid adding new elements and risking grid penalties. But teams will also be allowed to swap an engine or elements in parc fermé with new components or a unit of a newer specification between qualifying and the race without incurring a pitlane start. Read also: White smoke on the horizon for Porsche and...
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