Formula One drivers expressed shock after the sport's governing body quadrupled the amount stewards can fine them to a maximum of one million euros ($1.06 million).
Former Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone was arrested in Brazil late on Wednesday for illegally carrying a gun while boarding a private plane to Switzerland.
If elected, Singhania will become a member of the FIA World Motor Sports Council Board and will represent the FMSCI as its Titular.
Next year's season-opening Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne will move forward to March 20 after previously being listed for a later than usual start on April 3, organisers said on Wednesday.
Formula One will make it mandatory for all personnel working in its paddock to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, without exemption, starting this season.
Formula One looks set to go ahead with a controversial decision to award double points for the last race of the season after the governing body announced various rule changes on Thursday, but not the one many fans had hoped for.
The FIA World Motor Sport Council on Saturday nominated Indian racer Karun Chandhok to be part of the newly created Drivers' Commission, which will be headed by two-time world champion Emerson Fittipaldi.
"The 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship calendar was confirmed as previously published," the International Automobile Federation said in a statement issued after a World Motor Sport Council meeting in New Delhi.
Formula One stakeholders approved name changes for the Renault, Team Lotus and Virgin Racing teams at a commission meeting in Geneva on Thursday.
After the stupendous success of this year's inaugural edition, next season's Indian Grand Prix Formula One race will be held on October 28 at the Buddha International Circuit at Greater Noida.
Formula One's August shutdown will be brought forward and extended to a mandatory 21 successive days in March and April as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, the governing body FIA said on Wednesday. The 2020 race calendar has already been suspended, with last weekend's Australian season opener in Melbourne cancelled and the next three races at least postponed. The sport hopes to race again at the end of May.
The Indian Grand Prix could be moved to the second weekend in December as Formula One's season-ending race, Ferrari principal Stefano Domenicali said on Friday.
Fernando Alonso's Formula One title hopes could suffer a knockout blow when the sport's governing body decides Ferrari's fate at a Paris hearing on Wednesday.
Renault will face charges of fixing last year's Singapore Grand Prix by staging a crash that helped Spaniard Fernando Alonso win, Formula One's governing body said on Friday. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said in a statement that Renault representatives had been summoned to an extraordinary meeting of its World Motor Sport Council in Paris on September 21, the Monday before this year's Singapore race.
Ferrari Formula One driver Fernando Alonso has said that he does not care if he wins the drivers' crown in the courtroom rather than on the track.
McLaren risk heavy sanctions, including the possibility of being excluded from the Formula One championship, after being summoned to face charges of lying to stewards at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said in a statement on Tuesday that it had charged the team of world champion Lewis Hamilton with breaching the international sporting code on five counts.
The Renault team has been handed a two-year suspended ban from the Formula One world championship after admitting to race-fixing, the governing International Automobile Federation said on Monday.
The future of Formula One was secured on Saturday after the governing body (FIA) and the 12 teams signed a new Concorde Agreement to safeguard the sport until 2012.
Lewis Hamilton's Formula One title defence remained alive on Wednesday after his McLaren team was handed a suspended three-race ban for lying to race stewards. The governing International Automobile Federation said after a hearing in Paris that the contrite way in which McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh had apologised for the team's behaviour was taken into account.
Formula One's governing body will decide on Friday whether to change next year's scoring system so that the top 10 drivers can take points, with race winners collecting 25. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said in a statement on Thursday the proposal, made by the Formula One commission, would be put to its World Motor Sport Council for final approval.
Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has set Silverstone a December deadline to keep next year's British Grand Prix on the calendar.
Formula One's governing body has charged championship leaders McLaren with unauthorised possession of confidential Ferrari information.
Formula One's rulers gather in the millionaires' playground of Monaco on Friday to steer the sport away from its profligate past and towards a more cost-conscious future. With teams battered by the credit crunch and stunned by Honda's decision to quit, the FIA's world motor sport council is expected to rubber-stamp measures agreed on Wednesday to rein in spending.
Formula One approved a new scoring system on Friday with points extended to the top 10 drivers in a record-equalling 19-race 2010 season that will start and finish in the Middle East.
This year's Formula One title will go to the driver who wins the most races rather than the most points, the sport's governing body said on Tuesday.
Formula One's governing body approved a proposal to switch the date of next year's Monaco Grand Prix to May 16 on Wednesday but left a question mark over the Canadian and British races.
FIA said its World Motor Sport Council had agreed to cancel a Paris hearing scheduled for February 14 to assess McLaren's 2008 car.
McLaren were stripped all of their points in the 2007 Formula One constructors championship and fined $100 million in the spying case.
Ron Dennis likened his Italian Grand Prix weekend to a "difficult, emotional rollercoaster" and even as he said it, the McLaren boss knew that the stomach-churning ride was far from over.
McLaren could be kicked out of both this year's and next year's championship if found guilty of cheating.
Formula One leaders McLaren escaped immediate sanction on Thursday after a hearing into a spying controversy found insufficient evidence that they had benefited from leaked Ferrari data.
The organisers were fined a record $5 million for inviting a Turkish Cypriot leader to hand out the trophies after last month's F1 race.
The team's new owner Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya said an Indian driver is an option but not an immediate priority.
The Formula One season will stretch to 19 races next year with Abu Dhabi making its debut as the final Grand Prix in mid-November, the sport's governing body said on Wednesday. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) published the draft calendar, which starts in Australia on March 29 and has one more race than in 2008.
McLaren accepted an unprecedented $100 million fine and loss of all their 2007 constructors' points.
The Japanese company has been selected as Formula One's sole tyre supplier until the end of 2010.
The FIA said its world motor sport council had voted overwhelmingly to wipe the slate clean after examining new evidence.
The money represents a fine handed to McLaren in September as a result of a spying controversy. The FIA had imposed on McLaren a $100 million fine and the loss of their 2007 constructors' points.
Thanks to the McLaren ban, even if their drivers score points in the next few races, no one from the team will be allowed to take a place on the podium. So a McLaren one-two could conceivably mean Felipe Massa standing alone on step three.
Formula One teams have thrown a lifeline to Italy's Imola circuit by agreeing to expand next year's calendar from 17 to 18 races.\n
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