Charlie Whiting, who had been race director since 1997, first worked in Formula One for Hesketh before crossing to Brabham to work with the sport’s former commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone in the 1980s. He joined the FIA as a technical delegate in 1988. , who had been race director since 1997, first worked in Formula One for Hesketh before crossing to Brabham to work with the sport’s former commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone in the 1980s. He joined the FIA as a technical delegate in 1988.
We will do an incident investigation on that one because judging by the photos we’ve seen, and the accident itself, it looks very much as if it could have been a lot worse without the halo, when you look at the tire marks on the bodywork behind and all the way down the side of the halo, where the tire marks start on the halo is exactly where one of the two test loads is applied.
– Charlie WhitingFound on Reuters 10 months ago Sports
It will be done routinely if there’s a double-waved yellow flag.
– Charlie WhitingFound on Reuters 2 years ago Sports
The stewards accepted Nico’s explanation and looked at the data and felt that he had slowed down, but then the question is did he slow down enough, what’s enough? So if you can’t set a time, then that’s that, it removes all that subjective discussion.
– Charlie WhitingFound on Reuters 2 years ago Sports
The procedure now would be to simply red-flag any time that there’s a double-waved yellow flag, then there will be no discussion, it will be done routinely if there’s a double-waved yellow flag.
