Formulation 3 championship contender Luke Browning has misplaced his greatest lap time from qualifying after the stewards used new powers to penalise him for inflicting a crimson flag.
The Williams junior driver, who got here into the weekend seven factors behind chief Gabriele Mini, initially certified seventh and was set to inherit one place from one other driver who was disqualified after the session.
Nonetheless the stewards selected to make use of a brand new rule launched for 2024 giving them the ability to delete the quickest lap time of a driver in the event that they have been thought of solely accountable for inflicting a crimson flag. They subsequently eliminated Browning’s greatest time, a 1’34.437. His next-best time was a 1’34.941 which is able to drop him to 14th on the grid, one place behind Mini.
The rule was launched to F3 and F2 to stop drivers from with the ability to acquire a bonus by inflicting a crimson flag in qualifying which might cease rivals from beating their lap time. Some drivers have referred to as for the same rule to be launched in F1.
The stewards accepted Browning’s rationalization that his crash at flip 11 was brought on by a driving error. They dominated: “The motive force of automotive 14 [Browning] said that he was answerable for his automotive throughout the complete session and as a result of elements exterior his management, he spun and collided with the boundaries.
“The motive force defined that there could have been particles on the observe floor, and this may occasionally have been the issue that contributed to him shedding management of the automotive. The stewards acknowledged the driving force’s honesty and detailed rationalization of his method in driving in the course of the session and significantly what occurred at flip 11. The motive force defined that if he had continued (with out shedding management) that he could have set a much better qualifying throughout that lap.
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“The stewards introduced the driving force with the textual content of Article 33.5 of the 2024 FIA F3 Sporting Laws, which states ‘any driver who within the opinion of the stewards is the only real reason behind the issuance of a crimson flag in the course of the qualifying observe session is not going to be permitted to take any additional half within the session and their quickest lap time in the course of the session could also be deleted.’
“The resultant motion following automotive 14’s collision induced the qualifying session to be red-flagged, and the session to be ended prematurely. This sudden finish to the session not solely affected automotive 14 (who could have certified higher) however it additionally affected the overwhelming majority of the grid that was on a final try and safe higher qualifying outcomes.
“The stewards decided that the quickest lap attained by automotive 14, in the course of the session, ought to be deleted in keeping with Article 33.5 of the 2024 FIA F3 Laws.
“In [reaching] this resolution the stewards decide that there was no exterior or technical mitigating issue exterior the driving force’s management which will have justified the collision into the protection boundaries. The stewards don’t take into account any malice, unhealthy/intentional intent from the driving force’s half to trigger the issuance of a crimson flag.”
Three different penalties affecting the beginning order for this weekend’s F3 races have been additionally introduced. Joshua Dufek misplaced his sixth place on the grid for the Formulation 3 function race after being disqualified from yesterday’s qualifying session. His AIX-run automotive was discovered to be 1.5 kilograms beneath the minimal weight restrict.
Two different drivers, Piotr Wisnicki and Kacper Sztuka, got three-place grid penalties for impeding Dino Beganovic and Sebastien Montoya respectively. They initially certified twenty fourth and twenty seventh respectively.
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