Former Formulation 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 security automotive.
Regardless of hopes for a green-flag restart, the race in the end completed underneath 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 concentrate on leisure. When requested if the grand prix ought to have ended behind the security automotive, the 13-time grand prix winner defined: „I would favor not.
„Sure, there are guidelines, laws, 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 simply can not now restart the race if the automobiles have solely been launched from the again of the sphere inside a lap of the end.
„However I believe that course of might be sped up. I actually do. As soon as the security automotive’s out, the automobiles are neutralised. Sure, the security automotive has to select up the chief, however as soon as that is achieved, nobody’s overtaking. So, in a short time, they are often doing that.“
FIA Security Automobile
Photograph by: Sam Bloxham / LAT Pictures through Getty Pictures
Whereas he acknowledged the stress on the FIA race director, the Scot maintained that F1 should be taught from the scenario. „We stay and we be taught,“ Coulthard concluded. „It was a bit disappointing to not end [with] a one-lap dash. That will have been so a lot better than simply kind of working it to the road.“
The FIA launched the next assertion after the race to make clear why the security automotive remained on monitor 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 on account of a software program error.“
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