The FIA has revealed the brand new rule which would require drivers to make two tyre adjustments in the course of the Monaco Grand Prix, after it was agreed earlier today.
The brand new rule, revealed in a revision to article 30.5 (m) of the sporting laws, applies solely to Monaco’s spherical of the world championship. In any respect different rounds the rule governing which tyres drivers should use throughout races is unchanged.
The prevailing rule requires drivers to make use of two totally different dry climate tyre compounds in the course of the race, except they’ve used both intermediate or moist climate tyres. It doesn’t require drivers to make a pit cease to alter tyres: they’ll fulfil their obligation to make use of each tyre compounds by altering tyres throughout a pink flag interval, as most drivers did in Monaco final 12 months.
The brand new rule for the Monaco Grand Prix solely provides a couple of particular adjustments. In Monaco drivers should use three totally different units of tyres, which have to be of at the least two totally different compounds, except they use intermediates or wets.
Considerably, if drivers use intermediates or wets in Monaco, they’re nonetheless required to make use of at the least three totally different tyre units. Drivers will subsequently face a obligatory requirement to alter tyres throughout a moist race in Monaco which doesn’t exist at another spherical of the championship. They aren’t compelled to make use of the dry climate compounds, but when the Monaco Grand Prix was moist all through, drivers must make pit stops to suit recent tyres, almost certainly intermediates.
The brand new Monaco rule doesn’t particularly require that drivers change their tyres throughout a pit cease. If a race in Monaco was red-flagged twice, drivers might fulfil their tyre adjustments throughout these two stoppages.
It’s present apply that if a driver fails to make one obligatory tyre change they are going to be disqualified, except the race was lower quick, by which case they’d obtain a 30-second time penalty. That apply stays, however the brand new rule provides an extra 30-second penalty for a driver who fails to make each of their obligatory tyre adjustments, a violation which is barely attainable in Monaco.
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The brand new rule for the Monaco Grand Prix and the earlier model of the corresponding regulation are as follows:
Earlier rule
Except he has used intermediate or wet-weather tyres in the course of the race, every driver should use at the least two totally different specs of dry-weather tyres in the course of the race, at the least one in all which have to be a compulsory dry-weather race tyre specification as outlined in Article 30.2c)ii). Except a race is suspended and can’t be re-started, failure to adjust to this requirement will consequence within the disqualification of the related driver from the race outcomes.
If the race is suspended and can’t be re-started, thirty (30) seconds can be added to the elapsed time of any driver who was unable to make use of at the least two (2) specs of dry-weather tyre.
New rule
For all races besides the race in Monaco, except they’ve used intermediate or wet-weather tyres in the course of the race, every driver should use at the least two (2) totally different specs of dry-weather tyres in the course of the race, at the least one (1) of which have to be a compulsory dry-weather race tyre specification as outlined in Article 30.2c)ii).
For the race in Monaco, every driver should use at the least three (3) units of tyres of any specification described in Article 30.1a)i) in the course of the race and, except they’ve used intermediate or wet-weather tyres in the course of the race, every driver should use at the least two (2) totally different specs of dry-weather tyres in the course of the race, at the least one (1) of which have to be a compulsory dry-weather race tyre specification as outlined in Article 30.2c)ii).
Except the race is suspended and can’t be re-started, failure to adjust to these necessities will consequence within the disqualification of the related driver from the race outcomes.
For all races besides the race in Monaco, if the race is suspended and can’t be re-started, thirty (30) seconds can be added to the elapsed time of any driver who didn’t, when required to take action, use at the least two (2) specs of dry-weather tyre in the course of the race.
For the race in Monaco, if the race is suspended and can’t be re-started, thirty (30) seconds can be added to the elapsed time of any driver who didn’t, when required to take action, use at the least two (2) specs of dry-weather tyre in the course of the race, or who didn’t use at the least three (3) units of tyres of any specification in the course of the race. Moreover, an extra thirty (30) seconds can be added to the elapsed time of any driver who used just one (1) set of tyres of any specification in the course of the race.
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