Договор Согласия 1997

A 1997 version of the Concorde Agreement has been made public for the first time, as a U.S. based motorsport news agency offered the document to its subscribers.RaceFax Online, a motorsport newletter service run by veteran journalist Forrest Bond, has offered its clients a copy of the 100-page document in PDF format. Only paying subscribers may request to receive the file by email.Bond said he was sent a copy of the Concorde in 1997 by an anonymous source. Other journalists had also received a copy of the document, but all had elected to keep it confidential.However, Bond said he felt the time was now right to reveal the full agreement."While we are not bound by the confidentially agreement, we chose to observe it," Bond explained, "but recent events surrounding the dispute between the FIA/Bernie Ecclestone and the Grand Prix Manufacturers Assn. have led us to the decision to make the Concorde available."The agreement published by RaceFax is not the latest one, as changes were made to the Concorde Agreement in 1998, when it was also extended until the end of 2007.Nevertheless, the released document offers insight into the running of Formula One and the commercial and regulatory relationship between the FIA, FOM and the teams. It details the procedures and responsibility of the Formula One commission and Technical Working Group, as well as a rather complex legal agreement on the drivers' recognition board.Perhaps the most secretive element of the Concorde for years, though, had been the breakdown of payments to the teams. However, the document does little to make the picture clearer for the fans.The agreement states the top ten teams will receive equal shares of 47% of the TV money, but the prize money is broken down under a more complex scheme (see below).Bond said he did not know what results this publication of the Concorde Agreement would lead to, but he said he expects "they will be few, and lacking any real impact." Extract from the 1997 Concorde Agreement:THE PRIZE FUND3.1 The Commercial Rights Holder shall divide the Prize Fund into three (3) parts and pay the share due to the Competitor in accordance with the provisions of this Clause 3, as follows:(a) twenty per cent (20%) according to final qualifying results;(b) forty-five per cent (45%) according to race results;(c) thirty-five per cent (35%) by way of fixed compensation.Subject to Clause 6, the payments referred to in Clause 3.1 shall be distributed according to the following scale:(a) Final Qualifying results (20%)1st: 2.00% 6th: 1.30% 11th: 0.85% 16th: 0.60%2nd: 1.75% 7th: 1.20% 12th: 0.80% 17th: 0.55%3rd: 1.60% 8th: 1.10% 13th: 0.75% 18th: 0.50%4th: 1.50% 9th: 1.00% 14th: 0.70% 19th: 0.45%5th: 1.40% 10th: 0.90% 15th: 0.65% 20th: 0.40%(b) Race Results (45%) ------ Distance ------ 1/4 1/2 3/4 Finish 1st: 1.020% 1.020% 1.020% 5.440% 2nd: 0.780% 0.780% 0.780% 4.160% 3rd: 0.630% 0.630% 0.630% 3.360% 4th: 0.510% 0.510% 0.510% 2.720% 5th: 0.390% 0.390% 0.390% 2.080% 6th: 0.300% 0.300% 0.300% 1.600% 7th: 0.240% 0.240% 0.240% 1.280% 8th: 0.216% 0.216% 0.216% 1.152% 9th: 0.192% 0.192% 0.192% 1.024%10th: 0.168% 0.168% 0.168% 0.896%11th: 0.150% 0.150% 0.150% 0.800%12th: 0.138% 0.138% 0.138% 0.736%13th: 0.126% 0.126% 0.126% 0.672%14th: 0.114% 0.114% 0.114% 0.608%15th: 0.102% 0.102% 0.102% 0.544%16th: 0.090% 0.090% 0.090% 0.480%17th: 0.078% 0.078% 0.078% 0.416%18th: 0.066% 0.066% 0.066% 0.352%19th: 0.054% 0.054% 0.054% 0.288%20th: 0.036% 0.036% 0.036% 0.192%(Distances to be rounded up to a whole number of laps)(c) Fixed Compensation (35%): shall be divided into two equal parts of 17.5% each:(i) one such part shall be distributed to the competitors in proportion to the number of FIA F1 Championship points scored by each competitor in the previous two half seasons; and(ii) the other such part shall be distributed equally among the top ten competitors in the FIA F1 Championship for the previous two half seasons and if the top ten competitors represent less than twenty cars to the next highest competitor and so on until compensation has been distributed to twenty cars provided that no competitor shall be entitled to such distribution in respect of a number of cars other than that which it entered for the whole of the previous FIA F1 championship and in any event shall not be so entitled in respect of more than two cars.