Haas lodged a grievance within the aftermath of the Melbourne occasion after feeling that the laws had not been appropriately utilized in figuring out the order for the ultimate security automobile restart that determined the ending positions.
A chaotic second red-flag restart had caused one other stoppage, and F1’s race management determined to find out the operating order based mostly on how the vehicles had been earlier than the grid was fashioned relatively than how issues shook out early on that lap.
This was based mostly on Article 57.3 of the Sporting Laws that states the order for restarts: “shall be taken on the final level at which it was doable to find out the place of all vehicles.”
The FIA felt that this might not be established for all vehicles based mostly on that restart as not everybody accomplished a timing sector.
Nonetheless, Haas argued that it ought to have been doable to do it from Security Automotive line 2, which is on the exit of the pits earlier than Flip One, as all vehicles had received via there on the run away from the road.
Had the positions been taken there, then it might have meant its driver Nico Hulkenberg would have been categorized seventh forward of Lando Norris.
Apparently, different drivers had been additionally in a special place at SC2 than they had been at first, together with Purple Bull’s Sergio Perez.
Marshals encompass the automobile of Nico Hulkenberg, Haas VF-23, on the finish of the race
Photograph by: Lionel Ng / Motorsport Photos
Following a stewards’ listening to the place F1 race director Niels Wittich was referred to as, he defined that when it comes to the time out there to permit the race to proceed, probably the most wise level to find out the order was the earlier grid relatively than attempting to work it out one other means.
Each he and Haas agreed that utilizing GPS information to find out the order on the security automobile line was not fully dependable.
In the long run, the stewards felt that within the pursuits of preserving the grand prix operating as promptly as doable, it was greatest to make use of the beginning grid because the restart order.
A press release from the stewards mentioned: “This dedication wanted to be achieved within the context of a timed race occasion and due to this fact the choice of Race Management and the Race Director wanted to be made promptly; with the train of applicable discretion and by utilizing probably the most applicable data out there to them on the time.”
Moreover, it’s understood that setting a precedent to permit the protection automobile line for use for a restart order might encourage drivers to take larger dangers in future to get forward of rivals, simply in case there’s a crimson flag in repeat circumstances.
