2023 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX 20 - 22 October 2023 From The FIA Formula One Media Delegate Document 12 To All Teams, All Officials Date 20 October 2023 Time 13:00 Title Post-Qualifying Procedure Description Post-Qualifying Procedure Enclosed USA DOC 12 - Post-Qualifying Procedures.pdf Tom Wood The FIA Formula One Media Delegate 2023 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX 20 – 22 October 2023 From The FIA Formula One Media Delegate Document 12 To All Officials, All Teams Date 20 October 2023 Time 13:00 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 Race Control. • 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 in the media centre building. • 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. 1 • 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 2 ![Extracted image from page 4](images/post-qualifying-procedure_p4_page.png)