## 2024 BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX ## 29 February - 02 March 2024 The FIA Formula One Race Director From The FIA Formula One Race Director To All Teams, All Officials Document 2 Date 27 February 2024 Time 14:20 Title Race Director's Event Notes Description Race Director's Event Notes ## Enclosed 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix - Event Notes.pdf ## Niels Wittich # 1 ## 2024 BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX ## 29 February – 02 March 2024 From The FIA Formula One Race Director To All Officials, All Teams Date 27 February 2024 **EVENT NOTES General Instructions** ## 1) Observing yellow flags 1.1 Single waved: Drivers reduce their speed and be prepared to change direction. It must be clear that a driver has reduced speed and, in order for this to be clear, a driver would be expected to have braked earlier and/or discernibly reduced speed in the relevant marshalling sector. 1.2 Double waved: Any driver passing through a double waved yellow marshalling sector must reduce speed significantly and be prepared to change direction or stop. In order for the stewards to be satisfied that any such driver has complied with these requirements it must be clear that he has not attempted to set a meaningful lap time. Furthermore, during qualifying, any driver in a double yellow sector will have that lap time cancelled. 1.3 Double Waved during VSC or SC: Any driver passing through a double waved yellow marshalling sector during a VSC or SC, in addition to the requirements in 3.2 above, must remain positive of the SECU delta time in the sector concerned. ## 2) Laps during Qualifying and Reconnaissance Laps 2.1 For the safe and orderly conduct of the Event, other than in exceptional circumstances accepted as such by the Stewards, to ensure that cars are not driven unnecessarily slowly on ANY lap during and after the end of the qualifying session (including in-laps and out-laps) or during reconnaissance laps when the pit exit is opened for the sprint or race, drivers must stay on or below the maximum time set by the FIA ECU at least once in each marshalling sector and at both the first and second safety car lines (a marshalling sector is defined as the section of track between each of the FIA light panels). Any driver that exceeds the maximum time set by the FIA ECU may be deemed to be going unnecessarily slowly. Incidents will normally be investigated after the qualifying session. Teams and Drivers will be provided the maximum time latest after the second practice session. In the event of fast approaching cars, drivers should go offline between turns 3 and 4, turns 10 to 11 and turns 13 to 14 to avoid any high-speed differential between the cars on track on the racing line. 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. ## 3) Parc Fermé The Parc Fermé cameras must be always uncovered and operational during the Event. ## 4) 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. 2 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 flags 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. ## 5) Article 19.4 In accordance with the provisions of Article 19.4 a), upon request by the Technical Delegate, the Teams are required to connect the umbilical to the cars and close the HV contactors (TR 5.26.5) for the sole purpose of checking the car ERS safety status, every morning immediately after the covers are removed and the cars are under parc fermé conditions. The umbilical must then remain connected, and the car powered up until the end of the pre-Race car display period. ## Event Specific Instructions ## 6) 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. ## 7) 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 **("2024 Formula 1 Appendix – iss 1 – 2024-01-15.xlsx") and all relevant documents can be found** on the FIA SFTP site. Competitors are hereby required to ensure compliance with these directives for the safe and orderly conduct of the Event. ## 8) Support Races team barrier placement and Movements Team barrier placement prior to and during all support category practice sessions and races: No more than four (4) meters from the garages. 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. ## 9) Practice starts 9.1 Practice starts may only be carried out on the concrete apron area on the RHS of the fast lane at the pit exit and, for the avoidance of doubt, this includes any time the pit exit is open for the race. 9.2 Additionally, practice starts may be carried out on the track after the end of each free practice session. Any car on the track when the chequered flag is shown may then complete another lap and, instead of entering the pits, proceed to the grid and carry out a practice start. 9.3 All drivers carrying out a practice start must do so by pulling as far forward on the grid as possible and, if necessary, should wait for others to carry out a start before getting to a grid position further forward. Under no circumstances should a driver make a practice start if another car is still stationary in front of him on the same side of the grid. 9.4 If any driver appears to be disregarding any of the above a red flag will be displayed and the possibility to carry out any further starts will be immediately terminated. **10) Lines at the Pit Entry and Pit Exit** 3 In accordance with Chapter 4, Article 4 and 6 of Appendix L to the ISC drivers must follow the procedures at pit entry and pit exit. ## 11) 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. ## 12) DRS DRS Detection will be automatically disabled in each individual zone if any of the light panels in that zone are displaying yellow. The zones and corresponding light panels are as follows: - a) DRS Activation 1: Panels 3, 4 - b) DRS Activation 2: Panels 11, 12 - c) DRS Activation 3: Panels 18, 1, 2 ## 13) Track Limits In accordance with the provisions of Article 33.3, the white lines define the track edges. During Qualifying and the Race, each time a driver fails to stay within the track limits, this will result in that lap time being invalidated by the Stewards. Additionally, each time a driver fails to respect track limits at the entry or exit of turn 15, will result in that lap time and the immediately following lap time being invalidated by the Stewards. ## 14) Fire extinguishers around the circuit Indicated by white boards with a red fire extinguisher attached to the debris fences. ## 15) Places to remove cars from the track Indicated by fluorescent orange panels/paintings on the barriers. ## 16) Removing cars from the grid Cars may be removed from the grid through the gates adjacent to grid positions 2 and 18. ## 17) Car number light panels for the start On the right-hand side of the grid. ## 18) Changes to the Circuit No changes to the circuit compared to the event in 2023. ## Niels Wittich ## The FIA Formula One Race Director