Post Qualifying Procedure

2023 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX

22 - 24 September 2023

From The FIA Formula One Media Delegate Document 19

To All Teams, All Officials Date 23 September 2023

Time 11:55

Title Post-Qualifying Procedure

Description Post-Qualifying Procedure

Enclosed JPN DOC 19 - Post-Qualifying Procedures.pdf

Tom Wood

The FIA Formula One Media Delegate

2023 J G P APANESE RAND RIX

22 – 24 September 2023

From The FIA Formula One Media Delegate Document 19

To All Officials, All Teams Date 23 September 2023

Time 11:55

The Post-Qualifying procedure requires the top three (3) drivers to be interviewed once they have got out

of their cars. Should either of your drivers be among the top three (3) at the end of qualifying we would like

to ask for your co-operation in ensuring the procedure below is followed:

• If they take the chequered flag at the end of Q3, the fastest three (3) drivers should return to the Pit

Lane and proceed down the fast lane and park in front of the Pirelli Hot Laps Garages (between the

Alfa Romeo and McLaren garages) where they will find the 1,2,3 boards.

• Other than the team mechanics (with cooling fans if necessary), officials and FIA pre-approved

television crews’ photographers, no one else will be allowed in the designated area at this time (no

driver physios nor team PR personnel). At the sole discretion of the FIA Media Delegate, the team-

embedded photographer of the pole position driver may also be permitted in the Parc Fermé area at

this time.

• Once out of their cars, the top three (3) Drivers will be weighed by the FIA. Each Driver must remain

fully attired until after they have been weighed (e.g: Helmet, Gloves, etc).

• After the Drivers have been weighed, they will be escorted onto the grid in the vicinity of grid position

22 where the Post-Qualifying interviews will take place. The interviewer will be selected by the

Commercial Rights Holder.

• If any of the top three (3) drivers is in the Pit Lane at the end of the session, the team should ensure

that they go directly to the designated area once the other drivers have arrived there.

• At the end of the live interviews the drivers will be led to the backdrop underneath the podium for the

Top 3 and Pirelli Award photo opportunities.

• The top three (3) drivers will then be escorted by the FIA Media Delegate to the FIA Press Conference

located on the first floor of the Pit Garage Complex.

• At the end of the FIA Press Conference, the top three (3) drivers will be taken to the TV pen, located in

the middle of the paddock adjacent, and they may be accompanied by their press officers, who should

wait to collect their drivers in the Press Conference Room.

• Drivers eliminated in Q1 and Q2, drivers classified from 4th to 10th in Q3 and drivers who did not

participate in Q1 but are eligible to race must also attend the TV pen interview session immediately

after they have been weighed by the FIA at the end of the last part of qualifying in which they

participated.

• Any Driver from 4th and beyond who does not have a session for the written media organised after

Qualifying must be available for interviews at the written media zone adjacent to the TV pen once their

TV interviews have concluded.

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Please see the attached Qualifying - Parc Fermé Diagram.

Tom Wood

The FIA Formula One Media Delegate

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