Race Directors Event Notes
British Grand Prix · 2025 · 3 July 2025 · Doc 5
2025 BRITISH GRAND PRIX
04 - 06 July 2025
From The FIA Formula One Race Director Document 5
To All Teams, All Officials Date 03 July 2025
Time 19:03
Title Race Director's Event Notes
Description Race Director's Event Notes
Enclosed 2025 British Grand Prix Event Notes.pdf
Rui Marques
The FIA Formula One Race Director
2025 B G P RITISH RAND RIX
04 July – 06 July 2025
From The FIA Formula One Race Director
To All Officials, All Teams Date 03 July 2025
EVENT NOTES General Instructions
- Laps during Qualifying and Reconnaissance Lap(s),
In order to ensure that cars are not driven unnecessarily slowly on in laps during and after the end qualifying or during reconnaissance laps when the pit exit is opened for the race, drivers must stay below the maximum time set by the FIA between the Safety Car lines shown on the pit lane map.
Teams and Drivers will be informed of the maximum time after the practice session.
For the safe and orderly conduct of the Event, other than in exceptional circumstances accepted as such by the Stewards, any driver that exceeds the maximum time from the Second Safety Car Line to the First Safety Car Line on ANY lap during and after the qualifying session, including in- laps and out-laps or during reconnaissance laps when the pit exit is opened for the race, may be deemed to be going unnecessarily slowly. For the avoidance of doubt, this does not supersede Article 33.4 and Article 37.5 of the FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations, which apply to the entire Circuit, furthermore this includes the pit lane as well. Incidents will normally be investigated after the qualifying session or the race.
- Parc Fermé
The Parc Fermé cameras must be always uncovered and operational during the Event.
- Lapping during the Race
The ISC requires drivers who are caught by another car to allow the faster driver past at the first available opportunity. The F1 marshaling system will be set to give a pre-warning when the faster car is within 3.0s of the car about to be lapped, this should be used by the team of the slower car to warn their driver he is soon going to be lapped and that allowing the faster car through should be considered a priority. When the faster car is within 1.2s of the car about to be lapped blue light panels will be shown to the slower car (in addition to blue light panels, blue cockpit lights and a message on the timing monitors) and the driver must allow the following driver to overtake at the first available opportunity.
- Article 55.15 SR
“In order to avoid the likelihood of accidents before the safety car returns to the pits, from the point at which the lights on the car are turned out drivers must proceed at a pace which involves no erratic acceleration or braking nor any manoeuvre which is likely to endanger other drivers or impede the restart”.
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ERS safety check after covers off In accordance with the provisions of Article 40.2 k of the Sporting Regulations, as work required by the Technical Delegate; Each morning, immediately after covers are removed when the cars are under parc fermé conditions (Articles 40.7 & 40.8), all Teams must connect the umbilical to their cars and start a telemetry data logging for the sole purpose of checking the car ERS safety status.
Pit Lane Safety Art. 26.3 of the Sporting Regulations states: “Save where these Sporting Regulations require
otherwise, pit lane and track discipline and safety measures will be the same for all free practice
sessions, the qualifying session, the sprint qualifying session and sprint session as for the
race.” Additionally, Art. 34.13 of the Sporting Regulations states: “Team personnel are only
allowed in the pit lane immediately before they are required to work on a car and must withdraw
as soon as the work is complete.”
For the safe and orderly conduct of the event, in the context of the sprint session or race only, the
requirements of Art. 34.13 are considered to apply until such time as all cars able to do so have
completed the sprint session or race (as applicable) and have entered the designated parc ferme
area. Following the end-of-session signal, described in Art. 59.1, and when the Race Director
considers it safe to do so, the message “ALL PASS HOLDERS MAY ACCESS THE PIT LANE”
will be sent to all competitors using the official messaging system; this being the signal to all
competitors that the requirements of Art. 34.13 are no longer applicable, and thus holders of
passes not valid for access to the pit lane (i.e. passes other than those marked “Pit Lane” or “Pit
Lane All Times”) may enter the pit lane.
Competitors are reminded that in accordance with the International Sporting Code, Article 9.15.1
“The Competitor shall be responsible for all acts or omissions on the part of any person taking
part in, or providing a service in connection with, a Competition or a Championship on their behalf,
including in particular their employees, direct or indirect, their Drivers, mechanics, consultants,
service providers, or passengers, as well as any person to whom the Competitor has allowed
access to the Reserved Areas.
Event Specific Instructions
FIA Outside Scales Times Should the outside scales be set up at the pit-lane entrance, these will be available for teams to use at any time outside the curfew times and the Parc Fermé cover-up times, except for the 30 minutes preceding the start of the Qualifying session and if there are support competitions using the pit lane. While entering pit lane at the end of Free Practice sessions cars will not be allowed to stop to use the outside scales.
Specific Technical Procedures
Please note that the FIA have introduced an Appendix Index File which contains all the relevant and active Appendix documents, Technical and Sporting Directives. The latest version of this Index file (“2025 Formula 1 Appendix – iss 10 – 2025-06-23.xlsx”) and all relevant documents can be found on the FIA SFTP site.
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Competitors are hereby required to ensure compliance with these directives for the safe and orderly conduct of the Event.
- Support Races team barrier placement and movements Team barrier placement prior to and during all support category practice sessions and races: No more than one (1) meter from the garages.
Please ensure that your pit stop gantry arms are moved back towards the garage during all support category activities.
It is not permitted to push cars to the weighing area at any time a support category is in the pit lane.
Support Crews and Trolleys will be released into Pit Lane no earlier than 20 minutes prior to the opening of Pit Exit for their respective sessions.
Support Category competition vehicles will be released from the marshalling area no earlier than 15 minutes prior to the opening of Pit Exit for their respective sessions.
- Practice starts 10.1 No practice starts may be carried out at the pit exit. 10.2 Practice starts after each free practice will be done according to Article 38.3 of the Sporting Regulations. 10.3 If any free practice is resumed with less than 2 minutes remaining, for the purpose of facilitating practice starts on the grid as provided for in Article 38.3 of the Sporting Regulations, any car wishing to leave the pit lane must proceed down the pit lane without undue delay and exit the pit lane without leaving a significant gap to the car ahead. 10.4 Practice starts during the reconnaissance laps: Cars wishing to perform a practice start should leave the pit lane using the Pit Exit Road and must NOT cross the white line separating the Pit Exit Road from the circuit. They may stop in the area immediately prior to Safety Car Line 2, and perform a practice start. All such cars MUST then join the circuit from the Pit Exit Road. Cars NOT wishing to perform a practice start should leave the pit lane and MUST cross the white lines separating the Pit Exit Road from the track at the earliest opportunity and join the “normal” racing line. All such cars MUST NOT cross back into the Pit Exit Road.
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- Article 34.8 SR
(…) Any car(s) driven to the end of the pit lane prior to the start or re-start of a free practice session, qualifying session must form up in a line in the fast lane and leave in the order they got there (…)
It is noted that a car will be considered to be “in the fast lane” when a tyre has crossed the solid white line separating the fast lane from the inner lane, in this context crossing means that all of a tyre should be beyond the far side, with respect to the garages, of the line separating the fast lane from the inner lane.
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For the avoidance of doubt, ISC Appendix L, Chapter IV, Article 5b) states that:
Once a car has left its garage or pit stop position it should blend into the fast lane as soon as it is safe to do so, and without unnecessarily impeding cars which are already in the fast lane.
Thus, after the start or re-start of a free practice session, qualifying session, if there is a suitable gap in a queue of cars in the fast lane, such that a driver can blend into the fast lane safely and without unnecessarily impeding cars already in the fast lane, they are free to do so.
Furthermore, it is noted that during a free practice session and qualifying session a car driving in the inner lane, parallel to the fast lane, will not be considered to have blended into the fast lane at the earliest opportunity.
Additionally, ISC Appendix L, Chapter IV, Article 5d) states that:
Cars in either the fast lane or working lane may not overtake other cars in the fast lane except in exceptional circumstances.
In this context a “stopped car” is one which has an obvious mechanical problem.
- Driving in the Pit Lane During the Race This event is at a track where the pit lane is narrow. For the safe and orderly conduct of this event, when released from their pit stop position during the race, all cars so released shall be responsible for ensuring that they blend into the fast lane as quickly as possible in a safe and orderly manner without unnecessarily impeding any car already in the fast lane. If this requires the released car to slow down sufficiently to allow car(s) in the fast lane to pass them, then that is what the released car should do.
For the avoidance of doubt, in this case a car will be considered to have entered the fast lane when all parts of the car have crossed the line separating the fast lane from the inner lane.
- Lines at the Pit Entry and Pit Exit 13.1 In accordance with Chapter 4, Articles 4 and 6 of Appendix L to the ISC drivers must follow the procedures at pit entry and pit exit. 13.2 Pertaining to Chapter 4, Article 4 of Appendix L to the ISC any driver passing to the right hand side of the bollard at safety car line 1 will be considered as entering the pit lane.
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13.3 During the reconnaissance laps prior to the race drivers are allowed to cross the white line separating the pit exit road from the circuit. 13.4 For the safe and orderly conduct of the event, during any live session, team personnel are not allowed to cross the finish line at the pit lane, as indicated in the picture below.
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Stopping Qualifying Sessions For the safe and orderly conduct of the event, should any period of the Qualifying Session be stopped with less than 90 seconds remaining, the Race Director with the agreement of the Stewards may decide that the relevant period of the qualifying session will not be resumed, i.e. that part of the competition will be stopped.
Post-Qualifying drivers weighing Any driver who finished participating in the Qualifying Sessions after Q1 and Q2 must proceed through the pit lane directly to the FIA scales immediately after they have returned to their team’s garage. The drivers may not drink anything or do anything which increases their weight before it is recorded by the FIA. 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.
DRS during all free practice sessions and the race DRS Detection will be automatically disabled in each individual zone if any of the light panels in that zone are displaying yellow.
The zone and corresponding light panels are as follows: a) DRS activation 1: 5, 6, 7 b) DRS activation 2: 13, 14, 15
Track Limits 17.1 In accordance with the provisions of Article 33.3 of the Sporting Regulations, the white lines define the track edges. During Qualifying and the Race, each time a driver fails to negotiate with the track limits, this will result in that lap time being invalidated by the Stewards. Additionally, each time a driver fails to negotiate the exit of turn 18, will result in that lap time and the immediately following lap time may be invalidated by the Stewards.
Unsafe or Unknown ERS Status If the status of the ERS changes to unsafe or unknown, the relevant team will be required to send mechanics to the pit exit area behind garage 41. They will then be picked up by car to be brought to their car after the session.
Leaving the garage before and during all Practice Sessions 19.1 Before the start of a Practice Session or qualifying session no cars may enter the pit lane to proceed to pit exit until 5 minutes before the start of the session. 19.2 If the Free Practice Session or Qualifying Session is suspended, cars may only enter the Fast Lane after the re-start time is confirmed via the official messaging system.
Fire extinguishers around the circuit Indicated by white boards with a red fire extinguisher attached to the debris fences.
Places to remove cars from the track Indicated by fluorescent orange panels/paintings on the barriers.
Removing cars from the grid Cars may be removed from the grid through the gates adjacent to grid positions 1 and 12.
Race Suspension or Starting Procedure Suspended In case of race suspension or starting procedure suspended, (except in case of Article 57.2 –
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stopping on the grid), cars will be stopped in the fast lane with the first car stopped in the vicinity last team garage.
Car number light panels for the start On the right-hand side of the grid.
Lap times in each Practice Sessions Qualifying and the Race Only lap times which have been completed on the track will be included for the purpose of any classification.
Finishing the Race For the purpose of finishing the Race, pursuant to Article 59.1 of the FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations, the “Line” referred to will be the Control Line on the track and not in the Pit Lane.
Changes to the Circuit - Removed the kerb at Turn 1 runoff on the left-hand side.
The gravel in the gravel trap at the exit of T18 has been changed to a lighter material.
1 red kerb element in Turn 1 (apex) replaced by a flat kerb element.
2 red kerb elements in Turn 6 (apex) replaced by a flat kerb element.
1 red kerb element in Turn 7 (apex) replaced by a flat kerb element.
3 red kerbs elements in Turn 9 (apex) replaced by a flat kerb element.
Rui Marques
The FIA Formula One Race Director
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