The FIA has pointed out what can and can’t be done under Safety Car restart situations, following the confusion and controversy which was the Schumacher-Alonso pass at the end of the Monaco Grand Prix.
Since the start of this season, once the Safety Car returns to the pit lane, drivers are able to overtake rivals after passing the Safety Car line – located near to the pit lane entrance but before the start/finish line and, in some cases, before a track’s final corner.
With Schumacher having passed Alonso after the Safety Car line (ie. in the correct manner) in Monaco, the 7-time Champion was then penalised as a contradicting rule stated that no overtaking was permitted on a last-lap restart.
Following the perplexities of Monte-Carlo, F1 governing body the FIA released the following statement following a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday:
‘With immediate effect, no car may overtake until it has passed the first safety car line for the first time when the safety car is returning to the pits.
However, if the safety car is still deployed at the beginning of the last lap, or is deployed during the last lap, it will enter the pit lane at the end of the lap and the cars will take the chequered flag as normal without overtaking.’
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