Part of the season when drivers make decisions about their teams for next year. Usually don't begin before season is well over half done and ends few rallies to spare even though lesser teams and lesser drivers may still be considering their options.
In the old days mid-July was when the F1 teams began to maneuver into new alliances for the following season. This period of negotiating was known as the silly season. Nowadays the Silly Season is a permanent state of affairs.
Slang for the period that begins during the latter part of the current season, wherein some teams announce driver, crew and/or sponsor changes.
a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news
This term is used to identify the changing of employment within race teams. It mainly concerns drivers and crew chiefs and normally begins toward of the end of any given season when people are positioning themselves on different teams for next yearâ€(tm)s season.
The silly season is the period lasting for a few months (starting in mid- to late summer) in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia typified by the emergence of frivolous news stories in the media. This term was known by the end of the 19th century and listed in the second edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and remains in use at the start of the 21st century. The fifteenth edition of Brewer's expands on the second, defining the silly season as "the part of the year when Parliament and the Law Courts are not sitting (about August and September)".
