Post Qualifying Procedure

2023 QATAR GRAND PRIX

06 - 08 October 2023

From The FIA Formula One Media Delegate Document 11

To All Teams, All Officials Date 06 October 2023

Time 16:25

Title Post-Qualifying Procedure

Description Post-Qualifying Procedure

Enclosed QAT DOC 11 - Post-Qualifying Procedure.pdf

Tom Wood

The FIA Formula One Media Delegate

2023 Q G P ATAR RAND RIX

06 – 08 October 2023

From The FIA Formula One Media Delegate Document 11

To All Officials, All Teams Date 06 October 2023

Time 16:25

NOTE TO TEAMS: POST QUALIFYING PROCEDURES

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 where they will find the boards from 1,2,3 in front of the FIA garages.

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

television crews and the four (4) FIA approved photographers, no one else will be allowed in this

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 fastest 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, the Post-Qualifying interviews will take place on the track. 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 for the Top 3 and Pirelli Award

photo opportunities.

• The top three (3) drivers will then conduct a pooled TV interview at the back of the FIA Garages. They

will then be escorted by the FIA Media Delegate to the FIA Press Conference located on the ground

floor of the media centre.

• 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 conduct a pooled TV interview immediately after they

have been weighed by the FIA at the end of the last part of qualifying in which they participated. This

will take place at the back of the FIA garage.

For drivers outside of the top three (3) positions at the end of qualifying we would like to remind you of

point 15 of the Race Director’s Notes and ask for your co-operation in ensuring the procedure below is

followed:

• Any drivers who finished participating in the qualifying sessions after Q1 and Q2 must proceed to the

FIA scales through the pit lane immediately after they have returned to the 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.

Please see the attached Qualifying - Parc Fermé Diagram.

Tom Wood

The FIA Formula One Media Delegate

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