Exclusive: Why FIA has closed the lap and damaged car loafol formed for F1 2025

The FIA ​​has created a part of the change in the sports rules of Formula 1 for the 2025 season, with the most notable changes to laps and damaged cars formed with two flaws.

Article 43.8 of F1’s Sports Rules has been replaced to “all cars starting from Pitlane and be able to join the formation lap”.

First, such cars will only leave their garage when the grid was finally being formed and the formation would not participate in the lap.

Now, once the lap is completed with the pitlane starters, they will again enter the pits and line up in the qualifying order, until they will not form the first for the first time after the five-minute signal pre-race start-in which they will have to join the back of any queue that comes out for the lap behind the pack.

Autosport understands that by changing this rule, the FIA ​​has discontinued several potential flaws that teams may have exploited under the old rules.

The first is that under the words of 2024 of this rule, an additional formation lap or formation laps held behind the Pitlane Starters Security Car (very wet conditions) may be included in the laps, if they were desired, but in this scenario some people could not do so in terms of many cars and therefore other people could get other places when others came back to the pitlane.

Earlier, the onset of an abortion and an additional formation lap, cars starting from Pitlane can also automatically get an additional lap of fuel to use a lap race distance by a lap.

And in the event of a wet race starting with the safety car laps, a pitlane starter may wait to improve the situation in principle and then when the racing starts, the intermediate tires can go out directly on the tires, while their already circulating rivals will have to pits at the end of the first racing lapt to close the mandatory climax in such situations.

Keeping these three flaws in mind, the FIA ​​is understood that all pitlane starters are needed to start all formation before returning to Pitlane in every beginning situation.

Ording to stop damaged cars

The FIA ​​has been closed for 2025 concerns, when a driver tries to bring a damaged car back into Pitlane after an incident.

Although the sources within the FIA ​​insist on the change behind the change that does not come from any specific phenomenon in 2024, and is the result of thinking about returning to several sessions instead, an example of incorporating a pre-red bull driver before the previous year. Sergio Perez,

During last year’s Canadian Grand Prix, the single crashed after switching to the Perez Slix and then brought his car back to Pitlane with a edge rear wing – as he did so by dropping the debris on the track.

Perce was later awarded a three-place grid penalty for 2024 Spanish Grand Prix, in which Red Bull fined € 25,000 for confirming his decision.

Montreal Steovers felt Max Verustapane Other in RB20.

Now, a change in Article 26.10 means that the F1 Race Director Rui Marks will be able to order a team to stop their car immediately under such circumstances.

But it is not yet clear whether Marks will communicate directly with a driver as in some other categories or instead the message is relayed through his race engineer.

Now the rule states: “Any driver’s car suffers significant and clear disadvantage to a structural component, resulting in a situation that presents an immediate risk of endangering the driver or other people, or which has a significant failure or mistake in the car, meaning that it cannot return to the same form without disrupting another contestant without disrupting another contestant.

“At the sole discretion of the race director, a car should be understood as a structural component, or such a significant failure or mistake, such as important and clear losses, the competitor can be instructed that the car should leave the track as soon as it is safe to do so.”

Essentially, this means that there is a very fast implementation of the Black-Flag-Vith-e-Orange Disk Rules that usually require damaged cars to return to the pits for repair.

It is controversial since 2022 season A series of events related to cars continuing racing – After which the FIA ​​opted to reduce the use of the warning flag.

Autosport understands that the reason for changing this rule for 2025 stems from the previous text, which is considered very common and difficult to interpret both teams and race events.