“We don’t really want black-and-orange flags every race, because we’ve survived a lot of years where they were used correctly and infrequently,” Shovlin argued. Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin stressed teams do not want to see the black-and-orange flag becoming a regular feature in races and should instead by reserved for more serious car damage. But a little bit of a line in the sand has been drawn and hopefully there’ll be better racing because of it.” I’m sure at the technical advisory committee and the sporting advisory committee, those levels will discuss it more. “I think from here onwards small damages – like a mirror, like a front-wing endplate – if it’s non-structural – like a brake duct, something like that – will not be considered to be a black-and-orange flag offence.Īlonso bounced back to take seventh after Stroll collision“This is still ongoing. “I don’t think anyone – maybe apart from Haas – felt that having a mirror knocked off in an accident that wasn’t your fault, and then that drive Fernando did, merited have kept that seventh place.Īdvert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free “I think they agreed that things have gone a little bit too far. “We had some very positive discussions with the FIA technical department,” Permane explained. Speaking in the teams’ press conference on Saturday, Alpine sporting director Alan Permane said they were pleased Alonso’s 30-second post-race time penalty applied by the stewards had been cancelled, and that the FIA was in dialogue with teams about how to handle similar situations in future. Its driver Kevin Magnussen has been shown the flag three times in 2022, costing him valuable places each time. It eventually broke off, leading Haas to protest the result of the race due to perceived inconsistency in the use of the flag. Alonso drove for almost 40 minutes with his right-hand wing mirror shaking loose. The black-and-orange flag is used by race control to compel teams to immediately bring a car into the pits to address a mechanical problem or matter of safety.
However the stewards queried why Alonso had not been shown the black-and-orange flag before the mirror fell off. The team claimed it had run in an unsafe condition after its right-hand mirror fell off several laps after it was damaged in a collision with Lance Stroll.Īlonso was reinstated to his seventh place when Haas’s protest was overturned on a technicality on Thursday. Fernando Alonso was given a post-race penalty which cost him seventh place after Haas raised a protest against his car.
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