F1’s experimental sprint weekend format is g🥃etting it✱s second outing of the season at the Red Bull this weekend. 

A rule has been tweaked to prevent a repeat of the “unintended consequences” that🦩 happened in the new qualifying Shootout session during its debut run at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in April. 

The sprint weekend rules stated that drivers✅ must use a new set of medium tyres in SQ1 and SQ2, and a new set of softs in SQ3. 

But a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:quirk in the rules left McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris and AlphaTauri’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Yuki Tsunoda facing the prosꦿpect of not being able to take part ♔in the final segment of sprint qualifying. 

Ultimately, only Norris progressed to SQ3. Due to not having an unused set of soft tyres available, the 23-year-💞old Briton did not participate in the top-10♛ shootout. 

H🔯ad he opted to leave the garage, Norris would haveꦇ only been allowed to fit intermediate tyres on his car - despite track conditions being dry. 

Ahead of the sec𝓰ond sprint event of the 2023 season, the FIA, F1 and nine of the 10 teams agreed to a rule change to fix the problem. 

In his pre-event notes, F1 race director Niels Wittich wrote:“In order to avoid the acknowledged unintended consequence whereby in certain situations at sprint events i✨t becomes attract⛦ive to run intermediate tyres on a dry track, the following amendment to Article 30.5.h of the Formula 1 sporting regulations is made.

“Consultation has occurred with the commercial rights holder, stewards and teams. The agreement of the FIA, the commercial rights holder and nine competitors has been obtained in accordance with Aꦰrticle 1.4.

“Accordingly, my decision is that Article 30.5 h) ivꦓ) be modified to read as follows - Article 30.5h 🔯iv revised wording:

“In the period SQ3 of th♓e 🐽sprint shootout, up to one set of dry-weather tyres may be used, and this must only be a set of the soft specification.”