## 2024 MONACO GRAND PRIX ## 24 - 26 May 2024 The FIA Formula One Race Director From The FIA Formula One Race Director To All Teams, All Officials ## Document 3 Date 22 May 2024 Time 16:00 Title Race Director's Event Notes Description Race Director's Event Notes ## Enclosed 2024 Monaco Grand Prix - Event Notes.pdf ## Niels Wittich # 1 ## 2024 MONACO GRAND PRIX ## 24 – 26 May 2024 From The FIA Formula One Race Director To All Officials, All Teams Date 22 May 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 1.2 above, must remain positive of the SECU delta time in the sector concerned. ## 2) Laps during Qualifying and Reconnaissance Laps In order to ensure that cars are not driven unnecessarily slowly on in laps during and after the end of 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 second 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 end of the qualifying session, including in-laps and out-laps, 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. ## 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. 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. 2 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 55.14 "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". ## 6) Article 40.8 In accordance with the provisions of Article 40.8, 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. ## Event Specific Instructions ## 7) 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. ## 8) 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. ## 9) 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) meters 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. ## 10) Pit Lane Speed Limit 3 The Pit Lane Speed limit detailed in Article 34.7 of the Sporting Regulations is hereby amended to 60km/h for the duration of the event. ## 11) Practice starts No practice starts may be carried out at the end of the pit lane. ## 12) Curfew Due to the unique logistical challenges presented by the Monaco GP the following concessions will be made: On the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, for this event only, the curfew period will be reduced by a period of three (3) hours for a maximum of six (6) operational personnel for the sole purpose of tyre preparations post tyre fitting from the tyre supplier. **13) Pirelli Trackside Operations regarding personnel (Engineering/Fitting) for Monaco** 13.1 To limit the number of personnel for Monaco, the following procedure is implemented. - Only the Pirelli engineer will be present in the pit lane and garage for all practice sessions and qualifying. - All wear checking and tyre photography shall take place after the session at the Pirelli fitting - area. Each Competitor is responsible for delivery of the used sets to Pirelli in the usual way to wear checking/stripping. - For the race, each Competitor should have space to allow the usual wear checking during the race after the pit stop. A space should be provided in the garage or behind in the teams own area where Pirelli personnel can work. 13.2 Teams are kindly reminded that their maximum collaboration is expected to deliver free practice tyres to the Pirelli fitting area in a timely manner. ## 14) 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 or sprint qualifying session must form up in a line in the fast lane and leave in the order they got there (…) 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. 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. **15) Lines at the Pit Entry and Pit Exit** 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. ## 16) 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. 4 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. ## 17) 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 18, 19, 1, 2 ## 18) Turn 10-11 Escape Road If a car uses the escape road at Turn 10-11 (Chicane), the driver may re-join the track only when the lights, operated the marshal on the spot, are turned to green. ## 19) 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. ## 20) 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 at the end of the session to the area in front of the race control tower. They will then be driven to their car with a race control car. ## 21) Fire extinguishers around the circuit Indicated by white boards with a red fire extinguisher attached to the debris fences. ## 22) Places to remove cars from the track Indicated by fluorescent orange panels/paintings on the barriers. ## 23) Removing cars from the grid Cars may be removed from the grid through the Pit Lane Exit. ## 24) Race Suspension In case of a race suspension, cars will be stopped in the fast lane of the pits in the vicinity of the last garage. ## 25) Car number light panels for the start On the right-hand side of the grid. **5 26) Changes to the Circuit** - Resurfacing between exit Turn 4 until entry Turn 6. - Resurfacing between exit Turn 6 until entry Turn 10. - Resurfacing between exit Turn. 19 until exit Turn 1. - FIA fence upgraded with 45 degrees angled upper part between Turn 13 and Turn 15 on LHS. ## Niels Wittich ## The FIA Formula One Race Director