{"id":59719,"date":"2025-04-29T08:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59719\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T08:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:25:07","slug":"f1-take-action-after-red-bull-and-mclaren-grand-prix-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59719\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 take action after Red Bull and McLaren grand prix delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Action has been taken following significant grand prix delays during the <a title=\"2025 Formula 1 season\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-race-calendar\/2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Formula 1 season<\/a> which resulted in multiple teams across the grid having their weekend plans negatively impacted.&#13;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nThis year&#8217;s Chinese Grand Prix saw Red Bull, McLaren, Mercedes and Aston Martin all handed an <b><a title=\"official ruling by the FIA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1044191\/fia-statement-mclaren-red-bull-mercedes-delays-chinese-grand-prix-kym-illman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official ruling by the FIA<\/a><\/b> following a curfew break after the teams were left no choice but to work beyond the permitted hours in Shanghai. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe F1 outfits were hampered by freight delays across the Chinese GP weekend, an issue which was broached at a Formula 1 commission meeting in Switzerland ahead of <b><a title=\"this weekend&#039;s Miami Grand Prix\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1048228\/f1-2025-miami-grand-prix-weather-forecast-latest-south-florida-thundershowers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this weekend&#8217;s Miami Grand Prix<\/a><\/b>.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>What have F1 decided after Chinese GP freight delays?<\/p>\n<p>\nThe second commission meeting of the year was held at the FIA headquarters and chaired by single-seater director Nikolas Tombazis and F1 President and CEO Stefano Domenicali.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe meeting focused on key topics within the sport, including minor refinements to the 2025 regulations and <b><a title=\"issues which have resurfaced\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1048152\/f1-launch-investigation-persistent-japanese-grand-prix-grass-fire-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issues which have resurfaced<\/a><\/b> so far in this year&#8217;s campaign.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter the issue experienced by a handful of F1 teams including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-teams\/mclaren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McLaren<\/a> and Red Bull last month, it was decided that a regulatory mechanism to manage the circumstance of freight delays would be added for events where teams are required to fly outside of the sport&#8217;s &#8216;traditional European destinations.&#8217; &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nAs is standard procedure, all regulatory changes decided at the meeting are subject to approval by the FIA World Motor Sport Council (WMSC).&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nAt this year&#8217;s Chinese Grand Prix, all four teams found to have broken curfew ahead of FP1 at the Shanghai International Circuit were excused, with the <b><a title=\"FIA announcing the incident would not count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1044374\/mclaren-f1-chinese-grand-prix-curfew-breach-fia-official-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIA announcing the incident would not count<\/a><\/b> as one of the four exceptions allowed per season before penalties can be applied.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a title=\"F1 chief Brown confirms major McLaren exit&#039;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1048023\/mclaren-f1-chief-zak-brown-confirms-major-mclaren-exit-formula-e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F1 chief Brown confirms major McLaren exit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Action has been taken following significant grand prix delays during the 2025 Formula 1 season which resulted in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,4277,13530,15919,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-59719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-gpfans","12":"tag-kerry-violet","13":"tag-latest-f1-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114420300083328061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}