2024 BRITISH GRAND PRIX

05 - 07 July 2024

From The FIA Formula One Race Director Document 3

To All Teams, All Officials Date 04 July 2024
Time 15:12

Title Race Director's Event Notes

Description Race Director's Event Notes
Enclosed 2024 British Grand Prix - Event Notes.pdf

Niels Wittich

The FIA Formula One Race Director

 2024 BRITISH GRAND PRIX
05 – 07 July 2024

From The FIA Formula One Race Director

To All Officials, All Teams Date 04 July 2024

EVENT NOTES
General Instructions

1) Observing yellow flags

1.1 Single waved: Drivers reduce their speed and be prepared to change direction. It must be clear that
a driver has reduced speed and, in order for this to be clear, a driver would be expected to have
braked earlier and/or discernibly reduced speed in the relevant marshalling sector.
1.2 Double waved: Any driver passing through a double waved yellow marshalling sector must reduce
speed significantly and be prepared to change direction or stop. In order for the stewards to be
satisfied that any such driver has complied with these requirements it must be clear that he has not
attempted to set a meaningful lap time. Furthermore, during qualifying, any driver in a double yellow
sector will have that lap time cancelled.
1.3 Double Waved during VSC or SC: Any driver passing through a double waved yellow marshalling
sector during a VSC or SC, in addition to the requirements in 1.2 above, must remain positive of the
SECU delta time in the sector concerned.

2) Laps during Qualifying and Reconnaissance Laps

In order to ensure that cars are not driven unnecessarily slowly on in laps during and after the end
of qualifying or during reconnaissance laps when the pit exit is opened for the race, drivers must stay
below the maximum time set by the FIA between the Safety Car lines shown on the pit lane map.
Teams and Drivers will be informed of the maximum time after the second practice session.
For the safe and orderly conduct of the Event, other than in exceptional circumstances accepted as
such by the Stewards, any driver that exceeds the maximum time from the Second Safety Car Line
to the First Safety Car Line on ANY lap during and after the end of the qualifying session, including
in-laps and out-laps, may be deemed to be going unnecessarily slowly. For the avoidance of doubt,
this does not supersede Article 33.4 and Article 37.5 of the FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations,
which apply to the entire Circuit, furthermore this includes the pit lane as well. Incidents will normally
be investigated after the qualifying session.

3) Parc Fermé
The Parc Fermé cameras must be always uncovered and operational during the Event.

4) Lapping during the race

The ISC requires drivers who are caught by another car to allow the faster driver past at the first
available opportunity.
The F1 marshaling system will be set to give a pre-warning when the faster car is within 3.0s of the
car about to be lapped, this should be used by the team of the slower car to warn their driver he is
soon going to be lapped and that allowing the faster car through should be considered a priority.

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 When the faster car is within 1.2s of the car about to be lapped blue flags will be shown to the
slower car (in addition to blue light panels, blue cockpit lights and a message on the timing
monitors) and the driver must allow the following driver to overtake at the first available opportunity.

5) Article 55.14
“In order to avoid the likelihood of accidents before the safety car returns to the pits, from the point
at which the lights on the car are turned out drivers must proceed at a pace which involves no erratic
acceleration or braking nor any manoeuvre which is likely to endanger other drivers or impede the
restart”.

6) Article 40.8
In accordance with the provisions of Article 40.8, upon request by the Technical Delegate, the
Teams are required to connect the umbilical to the cars and close the HV contactors (TR 5.26.5)
for the sole purpose of checking the car ERS safety status, every morning immediately after the
covers are removed and the cars are under parc fermé conditions.

Event Specific Instructions

7) FIA Outside Scales Times

Should the outside scales be set-up at the pit-lane entrance, these will be available for teams to use
at any time outside the curfew times and the Parc Fermé cover-up times, except for the 30 minutes
preceding the start of the Qualifying session and if there are support competitions using the pit lane.

8) Specific Technical Procedures

Please note that the FIA have introduced an Appendix Index File which contains all the relevant and
active Appendix documents, Technical and Sporting Directives. The latest version of this Index file
(“2024 Formula 1 Appendix – iss 1 – 2024-01-15.xlsx”) and all relevant documents can be found
on the FIA SFTP site.
Competitors are hereby required to ensure compliance with these directives for the safe and orderly
conduct of the Event.

9) Support Races team barrier placement and Movements

Team barrier placement prior to and during all support category practice sessions and races: On the
white line, no more than (1) one meter from the garages.
Please ensure that your pit stop gantry arms are moved back towards the garage during all support
category activities.
It is not permitted to push cars to the weighing area at any time a support category is in the pit lane.
Support Crews and Trolleys will be released into Pit Lane no earlier than 20 minutes prior to the
opening of Pit Exit for their respective sessions.
Support Category competition vehicles will be released from the marshalling area no earlier than 15
minutes prior to the opening of Pit Exit for their respective sessions.

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10) Practice starts
No practice starts may be carried out at the pit exit.

11) Article 34.8 SR

(…) Any car(s) driven to the end of the pit lane prior to the start or re-start of a free practice session,
qualifying session or sprint qualifying session must form up in a line in the fast lane and leave in the
order they got there (…)
It is noted that a car will be considered to be “in the fast lane” when a tyre has crossed the solid white
line separating the fast lane from the inner lane, in this context crossing means that all of a tyre
should be beyond the far side, with respect to the garages, of the line separating the fast lane from
the inner lane.

For the avoidance of doubt, ISC Appendix L, Chapter IV, Article 5b) states that:
Once a car has left its garage or pit stop position it should blend into the fast lane as soon as it is
safe to do so, and without unnecessarily impeding cars which are already in the fast lane.
Thus, after the start or re-start of a free practice session, qualifying session, or sprint qualifying
session, if there is a suitable gap in a queue of cars in the fast lane, such that a driver can blend into
the fast lane safely and without unnecessarily impeding cars already in the fast lane, they are free
to do so.
Furthermore, it is noted that during a free practice session, qualifying session, or sprint qualifying
session a car driving in the inner lane, parallel to the fast lane, will not be considered to have blended
into the fast lane at the earliest opportunity.
Additionally, ISC Appendix L, Chapter IV, Article 5d) states that:
Cars in either the fast lane or working lane may not overtake other cars in the fast lane except in
exceptional circumstances.
In this context a “stopped car” is one which has an obvious mechanical problem.

12) Lines at the Pit Entry and Pit Exit

12.1 In accordance with Chapter 4, Article 4 and 6 of Appendix L to the ISC drivers must follow the
procedures at pit entry and pit exit.
12.2 For safety reasons drivers must keep to the right of the bollard at the pit entry when they are entering
the pits.

13) Post-Qualifying drivers weighing

Any driver who finished participating in the qualifying sessions after Q1 and Q2 must proceed
through the pit lane directly to the FIA scales immediately after they have returned to their team’s
garage. The drivers may not drink anything or do anything which increases their weight before it is
recorded by the FIA.

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 Any driver, who stops on the track during the qualifying sessions and is not required to visit the
Medical Centre, must proceed to the FIA scales to get his weight recorded before returning to his
team.
Drivers who finish within the top 10 must proceed to the FIA scales immediately when out of their
cars without contact with any other person.

14) DRS
DRS Detection will be automatically disabled in each individual zone if any of the light panels in that
zone are displaying yellow. The zones and corresponding light panels are as follows:
a) DRS Activation 1: Panels 5, 6, 7
b) DRS Activation 2: Panels 13, 14, 15

15) Track Limits

In accordance with the provisions of Article 33.3, the white lines define the track edges. During
Qualifying and the Race, each time a driver fails to negotiate with the track limits, this will result in
that lap time being invalidated by the Stewards. Additionally, during Qualifying and the Race, each
time a driver fails to negotiate with the exit of turn 18, will result in that lap time and the immediately
following lap time being invalidated by the Stewards.

16) Filming Activities

As previously notified to all competitors, there will be filming activities during this Event. With respect
to these activities the personnel and equipment needed for the filming have been authorized by the
FIA and its delegates, as required under the various provisions of the Sporting Regulations.

17) Unsafe or Unknown ERS Status

If the status of the ERS changes to unsafe or unknown, the relevant team will be required to send
mechanics to the gate in front of the race control tower as indicated in the pit lane drawing. They will
then be driven to their car with a race control car.

18) Fire extinguishers around the circuit

Indicated by white boards with a red fire extinguisher attached to the debris fences.

19) Places to remove cars from the track

Indicated by fluorescent orange panels/paintings on the barriers.

20) Removing cars from the grid

Cars may be removed from the grid through grid positions 1 and 12.

21) Lap times in each Practice Session, Qualifying and the Race
Only lap times which have been completed on the track will be included for the purpose of any
classification.

22) Finishing the Race

For the purpose of finishing the Race, pursuant to Article 59.1 of the FIA Formula One Sporting
Regulations, the “Line” referred to will be the Control Line on the track and not in the Pit Lane.

23) Race Suspension

In case of a race suspension, cars will be stopped in the fast lane of the pits in the vicinity of the pit
exit lights.

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24) Car number light panels for the start
On the right-hand side of the grid.

25) Changes to the Circuit

• New drainage at Turn 1 LHS.
• Removal of combination kerb at Turn 3 on RHS.
• New drainage between Turn 5 and Turn 6 on LHS.
• New gravel bed at Turn 14 on LHS.
• New drainage between Turn 14 and Turn 15 on LHS.
• Gravel bed extended by approx. 6-8m towards the track at Turn 15 on LHS.
• Asphalt run-off reduced to 1.7m at Turn 16 on RHS, filled with gravel.
• Removal of combination kerb at Turn 16 on LHS, replaced with grass.
• Asphalt strip removed between Turn 18 and Turn 1 on LHS, replaced with grass.
• New tire barrier with conveyor belt in Turn 15 on RHS.
• New tire barrier with conveyor belt in Turn 16 run-off.
• The white line in Turn 9 on LHS has been moved further to the left to reduce the distance between the
white line and the gravel to 1.5m.
• The white line in Turn 11 on LHS has been moved further to the left to reduce the distance between
the white line and the gravel to 1.8m.
• The white line in Turn 15 on LHS has been moved further to the left to reduce the distance between
the white line and the gravel to 1.5m.
• The white line in Turn 17 on LHS has been moved further to the left to reduce the distance between
the white line and the gravel to 1.8m.
• Red kerb removed in Turn 11 on RHS.
• Red kerb removed in Turn 12 on RHS.
• Red kerb removed in Turn 13 on RHS.
• Red kerb removed in Turn 16 on LHS.

Niels Wittich

The FIA Formula One Race Director