## From The FIA Formula One Race Director

To All Teams, All Officials Document 26

## Date 04 July 2020

Time 14:20 2020 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX 2 - 5 July 2020 The FIA Formula One Race Director Title Race Directors Note - Post Qualifying Interviews

Description Post Qualifying Interviews Enclosed 2020 Austrian F1 Grand Prix Post Qualifying Interviews Doc26 040720.pdf

## Michael Masi

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### 2020 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX

## 2 – 5 July 2020

From The FIA Formula One Race Director Document 26

To Formula One Team Managers Date 4 July 2020 Time 14:20

## NOTE TO TEAMS

The Post-qualifying interview procedure requires the top three drivers to be interviewed as soon as they get out of their cars on the track. Should either of your drivers be among the top three at the end of qualifying we would like to ask for your co-operation in following the procedure below:

- If they take the chequered flag at the end of Q3, the fastest three drivers should stay on the track and procced directly to the pit straight where the 1, 2, 3 boards which will be located in the vicinity of grid position 11.
- Other than the team mechanics (with cooling fans if necessary), officials and FIA pre-approved television crews and the three FIA approved photographers, no one else will be allowed in the designated area at this time (no driver physios nor team PR personnel).
- Once out of their cars, the top three Drivers will be weighed by the FIA using the Portable Scales next to their cars. 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 in this designated area.
- If one of the top three drivers is already in the pit lane at the end of the session, the team should ensure that he goes directly to the designated area once the other drivers have arrived there.
- At the end of the live interviews the pole position driver will walk back into Pit Lane towards the Pit Building and then be led to the backdrop located in front of FIA Pit Garage for the AfRS and Pirelli Pole Position Award photo opportunity.
- Mechanics will be authorised to remove the cars from the grid only after the interviews are completed and must push these cars directly to the parc fermé.
- The top three drivers will then be escorted across the track by the FIA Media Delegate to the FIA Press Conference located on the ground floor of the Media Centre Building.
- At the end of the FIA Press Conference, the top three drivers will go to the TV pen, located at the Pit Entry end of the Paddock behind the Race Control Building and they may be accompanied by their press officers, who should wait to collect their drivers at the back of the press conference room.
- NB: Drivers eliminated in Q1 and Q2, drivers classified from 4th to 10th in Q3 and drivers who did not participate to Q1 but are eligible to race must also attend the TV pen interview session after they have been weighed by the FIA at the end of the last part of qualifying in which they participated.

Please see the attached Qualifying - Parc Fermé Diagram.

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Version 1 – 03 July 2020 Pit Wall Pit Wall

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Photographers waiting area Grid Box 11 Parc Ferme - Qualifying 2020 Austrian Grand Prix