In 1963 the international motor racing body, the FIA, announced that the maximum engine capacity for the Formula One category would be doubled to three litres to start from the 1966 season.

The FIA also increased the price for television rights dramatically with the result that television coverage of the series disappeared from all European countries except Italy, Germany and Finland, prices for tickets to races were almost doubled, and access to the circuit paddock to meet the drivers ( which had previously been a big hit with fans ) was drastically reduced.

There he started driving for the Cooper Car Company works team and by 1958 had progressed with them to Formula One, the highest category of open wheel racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), motor sport's world governing body.

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ).

Formula One had a total global television audience of 527 million people during the course of the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship.

The Formula 3000 International Championship was a motor racing series created by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) in 1985 to become the final preparatory step for drivers hoping to enter the Formula One championship.

Sweden's Bjorn Wirdheim won the 2003 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship for Drivers

In Formula One, driver input is also recorded so the team can assess driver performance and ( in case of an accident ) the FIA can determine or rule out driver error as a possible cause.

For the 2003 season, the FIA banned two-way telemetry from Formula One ; however, the technology may be used in other types of racing or on road cars.

Villeneuve was close to signing with Stefan GP for the 2010 Formula One season, and undertook a seat fitting, but the FIA did not certify Stefan GP for competition in 2010.

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.

Classic Team Lotus continues to maintain Lotus F1 cars and run them in the FIA Historic Formula One Championship and it preserves the Team Lotus archive and Works Collection of cars, under the management of Colin Chapman ’ s son, Clive.

* Formula One – The first World Drivers ' Championship under FIA Formula A ( Formula One ) open-wheel racing rules is contested.

Modifications approved by the FIA and FIM were made to the former Formula One circuit, bringing the new track to a total of 16 turns.

The FIA made moves to eliminate ground effect in Formula One, by requiring flat bottom cars from and raising the minimum ride height of the cars from.

Formula One regulations were introduced by the FIA in 1946, with the aim of eventually replacing the pre-war Grand Prix structure.

( The American Indianapolis 500 formed part of the FIA World Drivers ' Championship from 1950 to 1960, but was not run to Formula One regulations and only very rarely entered by regular championship competitors.

Since 1985 the race has been a round of the FIA Formula One World Championship.

The British Grand Prix is a race in the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship.

* Professor Sid Watkins, world-renowned neurosurgeon who served twenty-six years as the FIA Formula One Safety Delegate and Medical Delegate, head of the Formula One on-track medical team, and first responder in case of a crash.

The is a race in the calendar of the FIA Formula One World Championship.

* 2002: A street-driven Dodge Dakota pickup with a diesel engine built at Gale banks engineering hauls its own service trailer to the Bonneville Salt Flats and set an FIA land speed record as the world's fastest pickup truck with a one-way run of and a two-way average of.

Mazda is the only team from outside Western Europe or the United States to have won Le Mans outright and the only non-piston engine ever to win Le Mans, which the company accomplished in 1991 with their four-rotor 787B (— actual displacement, rated by FIA formula at ).

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 1962, he made his first attempt, in a freewheeling tricycle ( ignoring FIA rules requiring four wheels, at least two driven ; in the event, FIM happily accepted it ) powered by a General Electric J47 engine.

The FIA decreed from 1966, new 3-litre engine regulations would come into force.

Unfortunately, the engine suffered from oil scavenging problems early on in its development, and although the problem was eventually solved, changes in the rules by FIA and ACO effectively doomed the future prospects of what could otherwise have been a competitive engine.

Although this controversy has been widely reported since as being due to the use of a jet engine, the FIA rules describing a qualifying car as being " driven through its wheels ", the only issue raised seriously at the time was over the number of wheels, hence the FIM acceptance.

" Super KK " is the FIA homologation name for the RX-R grade, in rally trim the 660 cc engine produced at 6, 000 rpm.

For 1967, the FIA increased the maximum engine capacity to 1600cc.

The aerodynamics are substantially different from the 360 GT, given that the 360 GTC has been newly homologated by FIA / ACO from the Challenge Stradale, taking up from its basic elements: front bumper, side skirts, engine cover and double rear end.

After the FIA effectively outlawed the Wankel engine the next year, the Mazdaspeed team raced one more year at Le Mans in a Piston powered car which came fourth, then turned away from professional racing and focused instead on enabling third-party competition of Mazda vehicles.

The 2006 Formula One season saw the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) introduce the current engine formula, which mandated cars to be powered by 2. 4-litre naturally aspirated engines in the V8 engine configuration, with no more than four valves per cylinder.

Teams started using exotic alloys in the late 1990s, leading to the FIA banning the use of exotic materials in engine construction, and only aluminium and iron alloys were allowed for the pistons, cylinders, connecting rods, and crankshafts.

Some of these new engines were capable of achieving 20, 000 rpm during 2006, though for the 2007 season engine development was frozen and the FIA limited all engines to 19, 000 RPM to increase reliability and control increasing engine speeds.

In 2008, the FIA further strengthened its cost-cutting measures by stating that gearboxes are to last for 4 grand prix weekends, in addition to the 2 race weekend engine rule.

The Fiat Duna acquired in Italy the reputation of the most unreliable car Fiat had ever produced, especially in regard to engine starting problems ; but, on the other hand, the car won the FIA realiability record in the late 1990s.

In 1976 Wurz claimed the first ever European Rallycross title recognised by the FIA with the car, by then still equipped with a 2. 4 litre engine.

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.

3-litre versions of the XK engine were built from 1959 onwards for FIA sports car racing.

From 1993, Lister Cars owner Laurence Pearce produced the company's first in house design the Lister Storm, which, naturally, continued using the V12 engine, both on the road and on the track, the car becoming a mainstay of the FIA GT Championship and several national championships for the following decade.

In FIA GT2 championship, in order to render the car performances more uniform, the cars are forced to run with a specific minimum weight and with an engine restrictor that depends on the engine displacement.