Just twenty four hours after the HondaF1 team launched their new environmentally friendly team livery, devoid of any sponsor logos and covered with a Google Earth image of the world, the sport’s governing body announced a delay in their environmentally friendly technology.

Instead of introducing their new heat and exhaust gas recovery systems for the 2010 Formula One season, the FIA have postponed the systems for a further year to coincide with the new four race engine scheme that is planned for the 2011 championship, complete with the use of bio fuels.

The statement from the FIA reads….

An extraordinary meeting of the World Motor Sport Council was held in Paris on 27 February, 2007. With the agreement of all the competing teams, and subject to the agreement of the Formula One Commission, a number of amendments have been made to the 2007 sporting regulations.

The following technical measures, originally scheduled for 2010, have been deferred to 2011 to coincide with the introduction of the new definitions for the engine:

A proportion of waste heat recovered and used to propel the car.
A proportion of waste energy from exhaust gases recovered and used to propel the car wholly or partially standardised aerodynamics (or, possibly, new rules to encourage road-relevant research into aerodynamics).