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Drivers ordered to abandon laps under double yellow flags

Drivers must abandon quick laps if they come across double waved yellow flags during free practice and qualifying following a new directive from the FIA ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix. Previously, drivers need only be 'prepared to stop' in a double yellow flag zone, but interpretations of this regulation has seen fast lap times stand so long as data shows a driver lifted in that section. Though the revised directive still states that drivers must still be 'prepared to stop', the regulation has now been clarified to inform that drivers on a 'hot lap' must now abandon it to definitively show they have slowed. “Any driver passing through a double waved yellow marshalling sector must...
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