About a month after the last modification, the rules of discord change face again in the article that has caused the most discussion in recent years. This is the 55.13, the one relating to the doubling procedure of the cars that have completed fewer laps than the leader. In the modification approved today by the FIA, the term any (which can mean ‘any’, but also ‘some’) has been replaced with annex. In this way, one of the points of the official ‘defense’ of Red Bull falls (‘Any does not mean all‘,’Any does not mean all‘), which benefited from the behavior of former race director Michael Masi, with the Australian who at Yas Marina left only some – and not all – of the cars between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen to double, giving one more lap racing at the Grand Prix.
Here’s what the new article 55.13 looks like: “If the clerk of the course feels it is safe to do so, and the message ‘Dubbed cars can now overtake’ has been sent to all competitors using the official messaging system, all the cars that have been lapped by the leader will be required to pass the cars in the leading lap and the Safety Car“. In short, the FIA had to patch up a point in the regulation whose interpretation – to tell the truth – was clear to everyone, even to Red Bull. Now there is no longer any possibility of misunderstanding.
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