Method 1 will drop the quickest lap bonus level from the 2025 season .
In an surprising transfer ratified within the newest assembly of FIA’s World Motor Sport Council on Thursday, the governing physique confirmed the extra level would not be awarded to the driving force who units the quickest lap in a grand prix subsequent yr.
The rule returned to the game after a 60-year absence in 2019. The purpose is simply at the moment awarded to a driver if in addition they end within the high 10.
“Minor changes for 2024 and 2025 Sporting and Technical regulations were approved by the World Council, including the removal of the point awarded for setting the fastest lap,” mentioned the FIA assertion.
Though the FIA assertion made point out to each this and subsequent season, a subsequent social media put up from the governing physique confirmed the change would come into drive in 2025.
Whereas no purpose for the rule change was given, the transfer comes weeks after controversy across the bonus level from final month’s Singapore GP when Daniel Ricciardo – who was driving for Purple Bull’s sister staff RB in what proved his ultimate race earlier than shedding his seat to Liam Lawson – pitted when working behind the sphere on his penultimate lap of the race to tackle new tyres in a transfer which allowed him to set the race’s quickest lap time.
Though Ricciardo, who completed seventeenth, couldn’t take the additional level that goes with it as he was working effectively exterior the highest 10, it took the bonus away from McLaren’s race-winning Lando Norris, who had held the quickest time as much as then.
Norris is battling Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen for the Drivers’ Championship and would have left Singapore 51 as an alternative of 52 factors behind the Dutchman with six races left.
RB insisted they’d taken the choice to pit Ricciardo as they wished him to exit on a excessive with the quickest lap amid the expectation he was poised to lose his seat, which subsequently occurred days later.
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