A music car that parked close to the pitlane entrance in the course of chinese language Grand Prix qualifying posed a low however nonetheless unacceptable threat, system One race director Charlie Whiting has said.
McLaren driver Jenson Button had instructed newshounds the location of the automobile have been the “maximum risky component” of Saturday’s session due to the threat of a automobile going off and hitting it.
The Briton, world champion in 2009 and a director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ association, wondered why theconsultation become not halted.
different incidents, a crash concerning Manor’s Pascal Wehrlein and Nico Hulkenberg dropping a wheel off his pressure India, delivered crimson flags out.
“It have to be emphasised that this is not a normal run-off vicinity and the risk become low, unacceptablehowever,” Whiting informed Reuters in an e mail.
“No flags have been shown because this became now not on the tune.
“the driving force of the circuit vehicle that determined to park inside the run-off region of the pit entrybecame as a substitute stupid and he moved it very quickly,” Whiting introduced. “the motive forcelacked revel in and won’t do it again.
“It changed into in no way comparable with the incident regarding Hulkenberg, whose vehicle had stoppedat the facet of the music with a wheel bouncing around all over the vicinity,” he delivered.
Whiting also clarified why marshals located tyres at turn 14 after the second of the three sessions and then removed them again before qualifying resumed.
“The marshals notion that qualifying had completed,” he said. “i think that after we advised the clerk of thecourse that we would now not be continuing Q2 (the second one section which changed into pinkflagged) he thought we supposed qualifying in wellknown.
“It changed into quite amusing to hear all of the team managers calling to marvel why we have beendoing this,” he delivered.
“I confess I did wind one in every of them up by saying that we had been getting fed up with drivers abusing the kerb and determined to take a drastic measure to deter them.”
