2022 SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 24 - 27 March 2022 From The FIA Formula One Race Director Document 29 To All Teams, All Officials Date 26 March 2022 Time 16:10 Title Race Director's Note - Post-Qualifying Procedures Description Race Director's Note - Post-Qualifying Procedures Enclosed KSA DOC 29 - Race Director's Note - Post-Qualifying Procedures .pdf Niels Wittich The FIA Formula One Race Director 2022 S A G P AUDI RABIAN RAND RIX 24 – 27 March 2022 From The FIA Formula One Race Director Document 29 To All Teams, All Officials Date 26 March 2022 Time 16:10 NOTE TO TEAMS: POST QUALIFYING PROCEDURE The Post-Qualifying interview procedure requires the top three (3) drivers to be interviewed on the Grid 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 following the procedure below: • If they take the chequered flag at the end of Q3, the fastest three (3) drivers should stay on the track and proceed directly to the Grid, where the 1, 2, 3 boards which will be located in the vicinity of Grid Position 23. • Other than the team mechanics (with cooling fans if necessary), officials and FIA pre-approved television crews and 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 pole position driver may also be permitted in the designated area at this time. - Once out of their cars, the top three (3) Drivers will be weighed in the designated area 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 in this designated area. The interviewer will be selected by the Commercial Rights Holder. • If one (1) of the top three (3) drivers is already 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 in front of the FIA Garages for the Top 3 and Pirelli Pole Position Award photo opportunities. • The top three (3) drivers will then be escorted by the FIA Media Delegate to the FIA Press Conference located on Media Island via golf buggy. • At the end of the FIA Press Conference, the top three (3) drivers will be taken via golf buggy to the TV pen, located at the pit entry end of the paddock and they may be accompanied by their press officers, who should wait to collect their drivers at the back of the press conference room. • 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. • Any Driver classified 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. 1/3 Please see the attached Qualifying - Parc Fermé Diagram. Niels Wittich The FIA Formula One Race Director 2/3 gniyfilauQ 2202 hcraM muidoP 52– - emreF 1 noisreV craP llaW tiP xirP segarag dnarG maeT namaremaC FR naibarA VT ts 1 dr dn 3 2 noitisop iduaS 32 dirG 2202 AIF pordkcaB AIF ![Extracted image from page 4](images/race-directors-note-post-qualifying-procedures_p4_img1.png) llaW srac ereh tiP gniniameR dekrap