Components 3 drivers praised a brand new rule permitting the stewards to delete a driver’s quickest lap time in qualifying in the event that they trigger a pink flag, after it was used for the primary time final week.
Championship contender Luke Browning’s quickest lap time was deleted after he spun right into a barrier at flip 11. The session was suspended in consequence which meant many different drivers had been unable to finish their last laps.
F3 launched a brand new rule this 12 months which allows stewards to delete a driver’s quickest lap time in qualifying if they’re judged to be “the only explanation for the issuance of a pink flag throughout the qualifying follow session.” Browning’s lap time was deleted, because of which he fell from seventh within the session to fifteenth.
Nikita Bedrin stated the rule creates fairer outcomes when drivers trigger pink flags which stop others from finishing their laps.
“The rule says now that it would get deleted when you trigger the pink flag,” he stated. “I feel it’s a very good rule as a result of when you have an engine failure or one thing like that out of your management [they] wouldn’t delete a lap.
“However for instance Luke, who simply crashed on his personal, in my view it needs to be deleted as a result of he compromised the laps of many drivers, together with ours. So I feel it’s far more of a good rule now.”
Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak additionally described the brand new rule as “honest”. The identical rule has been launched in F2 this 12 months and a few F1 drivers need to see comparable laws launched to their collection to stop drivers deliberately inflicting pink flags to thwart their rivals.
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Noel Leon believes F3’s rule ought to stop that from occurring. “I feel it’s good to have the rule as a result of generally some drivers can do a pink flag so the opposite drivers don’t do a lap after which they get no lap and so they qualify unhealthy,” he stated. “And in F3, when you don’t qualify inside the highest 10, it’s actually troublesome to make a very good weekend.
“So I feel it’s a good rule. Typically it’s not in your manner, however it’s a very good rule.”
The F3 stewards made it clear they didn’t consider Browning’s crash was something aside from a driving error. His rival Dino Beganovic, who was among the many those that had been unable to finish their laps due to the pink flags, stated that doesn’t imply he shouldn’t be penalised.
“It’s a very good rule,” stated the Prema driver. “In case you are pushing an excessive amount of, and also you trigger a pink flag, destroying, I’d say quali of different drivers then you definately should get a lap time deleted, I’d say.”
Nevertheless some drivers expressed issues the rule might not be clear sufficient to cowl all instances. “I feel it’s situation-dependent,” stated Christian Mansell. “For those who crash by your self going off and also you make a mistake by your self, I feel it’s subjective, however I feel you need to at all times have the possibility to elucidate what occurred. I feel that might be the fairest manner of doing it.
“I feel there’s far an excessive amount of gray space round this rule, to be sincere. At one level I heard his lap was reinstated, at one level I heard it was taken away, it was a bit messy. To be sincere, I simply want a transparent and concise rule which they’ve given.
“However at that time it’s worthwhile to have a little bit of wiggle room and also you want to have the ability to work with the FIA reasonably than them simply say ‘it’s too complicated, we’re simply going to do that as an alternative’. It’s a bit lazy on their behalf. However that’s my opinion although. The opposite boys, they make a powerful argument and I agree with them, however I feel you need to at all times be capable to argue what occurred.”
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