From our colleagues at the Formula One blog:
The World Motor Sport Council of the International Automobile Federation announced Friday that starting in 2013, Formula One cars will be powered by 4-cylinder, 1.6-liter engines with a maximum of 12,000 revolutions per minute. Today F1 cars have 2.4-liter engines running at around 18,000 r.p.m.
It also ruled at a meeting in Monaco that team orders would be legal again. Since 2002, when Ferrari created a scandal at the Austrian Grand Prix by asking Rubens Barrichello to pull aside and let his teammate, Michael Schumacher, win the race, team orders had been outlawed in Formula One. Read more here.
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