Former System 1 driver David Coulthard has urged the FIA to prioritise “leisure” following the anticlimactic security automotive end on the British Grand Prix.
The race at Silverstone noticed Charles Leclerc safe his first victory on the iconic circuit and Ferrari’s 250th grand prix win. Nevertheless, the race lacked an thrilling end after a late-race crash involving Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen introduced out the protection automotive.
Regardless of hopes for a green-flag restart, the race finally completed beneath security automotive circumstances.
Talking on the Up To Velocity podcast, Coulthard argued that there ought to have been some leniency within the guidelines to maintain a deal with leisure. When requested if the grand prix ought to have ended behind the protection automotive, the 13-time grand prix winner defined: “I would like not.
“Sure, there are guidelines, rules, however we’re leisure, and we must always actually try to hold that as a focus.”
He added: “In fact, there is a rule that states that you just can’t now restart the race if the vehicles have solely been launched from the again of the sector inside a lap of the end.
“However I believe that course of may very well be sped up. I actually do. As soon as the protection automotive’s out, the vehicles are neutralised. Sure, the protection automotive has to choose up the chief, however as soon as that is carried out, nobody’s overtaking. So, in a short time, they are often doing that.”
FIA Security Automobile
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Whereas he acknowledged the stress on the FIA race director, the Scot maintained that F1 should be taught from the state of affairs. “We stay and we be taught,” Coulthard concluded. “It was a bit disappointing to not end [with] a one-lap dash. That may have been so a lot better than simply type of working it to the road.”
The FIA launched the next assertion after the race to make clear why the protection automotive remained on observe till the chequered flag.
“The protection automotive interval regulation, Article B5.13.5, states that one lap should be accomplished following the unlapping process. This course of was adopted by Race Operations.
“The ‘Security Automobile In This Lap’ message was displayed erroneously as a result of a software program error.”
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