Bojan Vrbnjak
Racers can be on the track in Baku significantly improve lap time by drive slowly behind another race car. This has prompted many to do so experimenting with different tactics, which are intended to provide a breeze or to prevent other racers from doing so.
"In this case, you definitely get a lot of time for the first turn and the same for the last," he said Esteban Ocon, team racer Alpine F1. "The breeze is a big advantage here.“Racers on some tracks slow downto position themselves so that they get the breeze of a rivalto pull them forward. But because of the particularly narrow sections Baku and high speeds, this is considered potential risky practice. On the last visit Baku in 2019 it is Mercedes in Q3 cheated a competitor Ferrari. They did it the way they are Lewis Hamilton in Valtteria Bottas released from the pits, thus attracting Ferrarito send after them Sebastian Vettl, but both Mercedes racers stopped at exit from the pits, presumably for a start exercise.
FIA director of the race Michael Massi he described to teams and racers on Thursday new measures for enforcement Article 27.4 sports rules prohibiting unnecessarily slow driving race cars or in a way that could be potentially dangerous. Racers may face this in this case sanctions race commissioners if they notice that slow-moving racers would obstruct others. The longest time between the two lines of the safety car, which is determined after the second free practice, will be used as a reference to determine if any of the racers had excessively slowed down their ride. When it's Masi alerts to certain sections of track, where racers should avoid overdoing it slow driving, specifically referred to exit from the pits and the turns that follow brake point of the 16th turn.
