![]() "The guy that's releasing the car is having to make that judgement, and I think that it's not been well thought through. Horner said: "To have to hold the car for two tenths of a second, you could almost argue it's dangerous because you're judging your gaps. This is a reference to an incident in which a Ferrari mechanic suffered a broken leg when Kimi Raikkonen was released too early from a pit stop in Bahrain in 2018. Ferrari were fined 50,000 euros by race officials for an unsafe release at the Bahrain Grand Prix in 2018Īn FIA spokesman said: The key point is that this is a proactive safety update, building in some required latency into the procedures in order to ensure the decisions are being taken by the equipment operators rather than being automated, and thus to protect the pit crews from incidents similar to the one seen in Bahrain a few years ago." The rules say that both situations should be triggered manually, but some teams had what one senior figure described as "strong suspicions" that rivals had systems that were fully automated within the pit-stop equipment. It mandates a minimum 0.15-second delay between the wheel nuts being confirmed as tight and the mechanic operating the jack dropping the car, and 0.2secs from the jack going down to the driver receiving the signal to leave the pits. The FIA issued a technical directive before this weekend's Styrian Grand Prix at Austria's Red Bull Ring which comes into force at the Hungarian Grand Prix on 1 August. ![]() "So did that trigger anything else? Maybe. "That happened, I would say three or four weeks ago. "We inquired with the FIA on a safety mechanism, which is related to a system that we were using, and whether that could be optimised," Wolff said. Turkish Grand Prix to replace Singapore on 2021 calendar. ![]()
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