F1 stewards call for rule review after Melbourne near-miss behind Safety Car
Sunday’s chaotic race in Melbourne was disrupted by three red flags, the first of which was caused when168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Alex Albon lost control of his ꦚWilliams and spun into the gravel on lap seven.
Rac🐭e control initially deployed the Safety Car before the red flag was triggered due to the amount of gravel and debris that had been thrown onto the track.
When the cars reemerged to the track behinꦅd the Safety Car ahead of a standing restart, the contrasting pace of the two Mercedes drivers almost caused a major incident.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton - who was entitled to dictate the pace as the first car in line behind the Safet👍y Car - dramatically slowed down once the Safety Car lights had gone out.
At the same time Mercedes teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell, who was running s🦂e🌸venth, was delayed leaving the pitlane.
— Formula 1 (@F1)"When Russell and the cars behind caught up with the cars in front, they were met with a significant speed delta between the two gᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚroups resulting in a situation where a nꦺumber of cars had to take evasive action,” the stewards said.
"This was not at all an ideal situation fro🐻m a safety point 🍨of view.
“Although Russell's start was slow, giꦐven that he had to maintain the pit lane speed till he got out of the pits and that he immediately sped up to make up the gap, we did not consider that it would be necessary or appropriate to penalise Russell for a slow start from the pit lane.
“We, therefore, took no further action.”
Although the stewa🎃rds decided not to dish out out any penalties, they did call for a review into the wording of the regulation which permits the lead driver to dictate the pace.
Article 58.11 of the sporting regulations states: "At this point the first car in l♊ine behind the safety car may dictate the pace and, if necessary, fall more than ten (10) car lengths behind it.”
"We do consider that part of the problem is the regulation that permits the lead car to set the pace even when the restart is for a standing start from the pit lane (as opposed to♏ a rolling s♑tart),” the stewards added.
"This should �𝔉�perhaps be looked at in the future to see if this is appropriate for a restart of this nature."
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