2025 Chinese Grand Prix - Post-Qualifying Procedure

2025 CHINESE GRAND PRIX 21 - 23 March 2025 The FIA Formula One Media DelegateFrom The FIA Formula One Media Delegate To All Teams, All OfficialsDocument 36 Date 22 March 2025 Time 08:41 Title Post-Qualifying Procedure Description Post-Qualifying Procedure Enclosed 2025 Chinese Grand Prix - Post-Qualifying Procedure.pdf Roman De Lauw 1 2025 CHINESE GRAND PRIX 21 – 23 March 2025 From The FIA Formula One Media Delegate T o All Officials, All Teams Date 22 March 2025 NOTE TO TEAMS: POST- QUALIFYING PROCEDURE T he 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 bel ow is followed: •I f they take the chequered flag at the end of Q3, the fastest three (3) drivers should return to the Pi t La ne where they will find the 1,2,3 boards in front of the FIA garage. •Other than the team mechanics (with cooling fans if necessary), officials, FIA pre- approved televisio n c rews and photographers, no one else will be allowed in the designated area at this time (no driver physios nor team PR personnel). •Once out of their cars, the top three (3) Drivers will be weighed by the FIA. Each Driver must remai n f ully 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 the pit lane . 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 ensur e t hat 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 Awardphoto opportunities. •The top three (3) drivers will then be escorted by the FIA Media Delegate to the FIA Press Conference. •At the end of the FIA Press Conference, the top three (3) drivers will be taken to the TV pen. •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 attend the TV pen interview immediately after they have been weighed by the FIA at the end of the last part of qualifying in which they participated. •Any Driver from 4 th 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. F or drivers outside of the top three (3) positions at the end of qualifying we would like to ask for your co- operation in ensuring the procedure below is followed: •A ny drivers who finished participating in the qualifying sessions after Q1 and Q2 must proceed to t he F IA 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. •Any driver, who stops on the track during the qualifying sessions and is not required to visit the MedicalCentre, must proceed to the FIA scales to get his weight recorded before returning to his team. 2 • 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. Roman De Lauw The FIA Formula One Media Delegate TV RF CameramanTV RF Cameraman Version 1 – 21 April 20 25Photographers ’ waiting area PhotographersPhotographersPodiumFence to be put across AFTER photographer ’s have moved to pit wallA B CParc Ferme – Qualifying 2025 Chinese Grand Prix 1st 2nd3rd BACKDROP Remaining cars parked here SCALES