The drivers were subsequently fined between $ 5000 and $ 10, 000 and handed suspended race bans, however the FIA court of appeal later reduced the penalties and criticised FISA's handling of the dispute.

The World Touring Car Championship features 1. 6-litre cars built to Super 2000 regulations based on FIA Group N.

* The old World Touring Car Championship, plagued by lack of support from the FIA, raced under the Group A regulations in 1987.

This series ran from 1966 to 1974 and was an expansion of the USRRC that conformed to FIA Group 7 rules.

In Europe, the FIA adopted the ACO GTP rules virtually unchanged and sanctioned the Group C World Endurance Championship ( or World Sportscar Championship ), featuring high-tech closed-cockpit prototypes from Porsche, Aston Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Jaguar and others.

The FIA attempted to make Group C into a virtual " two seater Grand Prix " format in the early 1990s, with engine rules in common with F1, short race distances, and a schedule dovetailing with that of the F1 rounds.

In January 1993 the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport replaced the existing Group 3A Touring Car category ( formerly based on FIA Group A rules ) with a new three-class Group 3A.

* Group 6 ( racing ), FIA classification for sports car racing

* Group 2 ( racing ), an FIA classification for cars in auto racing and Rally racing that preceded Group A

Comparable to modern FIA Group N

A evolution model was developed by Brian Hart just as Group B was cancelled by the FIA.

The Lancer Evo has also dominated the FIA championship for showroom-ready cars, winning seven consecutive Group N titles with four different drivers from 1995 – 2001.

The Porsche 959 was a sports car manufactured by Porsche from 1986 to 1989, first as a Group B rally car and later as a legal production car designed to satisfy FIA homologation regulations requiring that a minimum number of 200 street legal units be built.

The road-going RS200 was based on Ford's Group B rally car and was designed to comply with FIA homologation regulations, which required 200 road legal versions be built.

The accident at Rally Portugal set off a chain reaction and the RS200 became obsolete after only one full year of competition as the FIA, the governing board, which at the time controlled WRC rally racing, abolished Group B after the 1986 season.

The ban on Group B racing effectively forced the E2 model into stillbirth ; however, more than one dozen of them were successfully run from August 1986 till October 1992 in the FIA European Championships for Rallycross Drivers events all over Europe, and Norwegian Martin Schanche claimed the 1991 European Rallycross title with a Ford RS200 E2 that produced over.

FIA homologation rules for Group B required the construction of at least 200 road-legal vehicles, and Ford constructed these 200 units with spare parts for another 20 + units put aside for the racing teams.

In 2001, Mitsubishi was forced by the FIA to race in the WRC using WRC rules for building a car instead of the Group A class rules, and thus did not need to follow homologation rules.

In relation to motorsport governed by the FIA, Group A referred to a set of regulations providing production-derived vehicles for outright competition.

Group A was introduced by the FIA in 1982 to replace the outgoing Group 2 as " modified touring cars ", while Group N would replace Group 1 as " standard touring cars ".

* Class B for 2. 0 litre cars complying with FIA Class II Touring Car regulations

This left no category below Formula A / Formula 1, so Formula Two ( originally known as Formula B ) was first formally codified in 1948 by FIA as a smaller and cheaper complement to the Grand Prix cars of the era.

Sadly however, in 1986 Henri Toivonen died driving a Lancia Delta during the Tour de Corse rally and the FIA decided to drop the Group B class as being too fast and too dangerous.

The dominance of the 935 was ended by the FIA rules changes coming in effect in 1982, when the six numbered groups were replaced by only three groups, A, B and C.

An all wheel drive version of the Starion was also produced for Group B specifications ( one of the few Japanese automobile manufacturers to enter this class ), but after an encouraging start as a prototype, it was not homologated before the FIA banned Group B cars for safety reasons.

As early as 1984, the Maranello factory had begun development of an evolution model of the 288 GTO intended to compete against the Porsche 959 in FIA Group B.

However, when the FIA brought an end to the Group B category for the 1986 season, Enzo was left with five 288 GTO Evoluzione development cars, and no series in which to campaign them.

Group B was a set of regulations introduced in 1982 for competition vehicles in sportscar racing and rallying regulated by the FIA.

Group B was introduced by the FIA in 1982 as replacement for both Group 4 ( modified grand touring ) and Group 5 ( touring prototypes ) cars.

For 1993, the FIA replaced the Group B models with prototypes that had to be based on existing Group A cars, but still followed the spirit of Group B, with low weight, 4WD, high turbo boost pressure and staggering amounts of power.

The Lancia Delta S4 is a Group B rally car that competed in the World Rally Championship in 1985 and 1986, until Group B cars were banned from competition by the FIA.

However, Group B as well as Group S cars were banned from competition by the FIA in late 1986 due to safety concerns and the ECV never raced.

After a quiet 2000, he returned to drive part of the German V8Star Series season in 2001, competing sparsely in 2002 with one FIA GT Championship Class B race for Machanek Porsche.

The Lancia Rally 037 ( also known as the Lancia Abarth # 037 ) was a mid-engine rally car built by Lancia in the early 1980s purely for the FIA Group B World Rally Championship.

In 1981 Lancia began designing the 037 to comply with the then new FIA Group B regulations that allowed cars to race with relatively few homologation models being built.

Since the early 90s the team has concentrated on running Sports cars and GT cars running the works BMW operation in the French Supertouring Championship, winning the FIA GT Championship and the Le Mans 24 Hours in the GT2 class with a Chrysler Viper GTS-R and overall for Mazda 787B in 1991, on their second attempt and first after a decade ; preparing the Renault Clio S1600 for rallying and winning the ice racing Andros Trophy with a Toyota Corolla driven by Alain Prost.

In March 2006, less than a year after selling his team to Red Bull, Stoddart announced his intentions to return the Minardi name to Formula One after lodging an entry with the FIA for the championship season.

Having previously only raced in very junior open-wheel categories, he was given his Super Licence from the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) after a performance delivery promise by his team boss, Peter Sauber.

The title was revived by the FIA after World War II, and was first given to the Belgian Grand Prix in 1947, and was distributed across several countries until the 1977 British Grand Prix, the last race to receive the honorific title.

The teams usually abide by this rule, but in 1997, Mika Häkkinen was stripped of his third place finish at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium after the FIA determined that his fuel was not the correct formula, as well as in 1976, both McLaren and Penske cars were forced to the rear of the Italian Grand Prix after octane number of the mixture was found to be too high.

This decision was overturned days later in the FIA Court of Appeal in Paris after new evidence came to light which proved that Fisichella had crossed the finish line in the lead for a second time before Alonso's accident, and therefore was the rightful winner.

Both were designed to improve downforce, but, after testing them during Thursday practice, the FIA banned both.

EA released their last F1 title in 2002 ( It was based on ISI rFactor engine ) after which Sony bought the exclusive FIA Formula 1 license and came out with Formula 1 Championship Edition in 2007 which did not see much success.

They bear the letters FIA after their names ;

After Group 5 was discontinued by FIA after 1982, the 935 continued to race in IMSA's GTP category, usually entered by smaller privateer names, who were not permitted by IMSA regulations to race the new Group C Porsche 956 because of the footbox location relative to the front axle ( footbox was ahead, in violation of the IMSA rule where it must be behind the front axle ).

1985 was the final South African Grand Prix until the end of apartheid, with FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre announcing days after the race that a Grand Prix would not return to the nation because of apartheid.

Because of this " exceptional circumstance ", the FIA stewards allowed him to race although an electrical failure stopped him after twelve laps.

In 1992, after becoming president of the FIA, Mosley sold his share in Simtek to Wirth.

It was the final South African Grand Prix until apartheid ended, with FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre announcing days after the race that a grand prix would not return to the nation because of apartheid.

Whilst in his opinion he had only sustained a sore ankle, he was taken to the nearby Bellaria-Igea Marina hospital, and after medical checks he was forbidden to start by FIA Medical Delegate Sid Watkins.

Several hours after the conclusion of the race, Schumacher and Coulthard were from the race result as the chemical " fingerprint " of fuel samples from their cars taken after qualifying and the race did not match the specified sample lodged with the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) prior to the event.

However, after the race McLaren were docked 10 points because an FIA seal was missing from Häkkinen's car.

It featured the 2002 FIA Formula One World Championship, which commenced on 3 March and ended on 13 October after seventeen races.

It featured the FIA Formula One World Championship which commenced on March 4, 2001 and ended on October 14 after seventeen races.