Last season, we regularly saw the meatball flag being waved, a sign that a part is (too) loose and needs to be fixed in the pit lane. We saw the flag several times, even at times when it may not have been necessary. The teams and the
FIA agreed to drastically relax the policy, but the Ocon incident is perhaps the other extreme again.
The
McLaren team boss will put the issue on the agenda at the next Sporting Advisory Committee. "
You need to know the construction of your car. You need to assess what’s wrong, and then you need to wonder ‘Have I put out my car and my components in this condition?’. Very likely, the answer is ‘No, we didn’t’. So it comes down to a sense of responsibility which every team can interpret in a different way."Stella wants to talk to the FIA to see what the rationale was for their decision not to bring Ocon in to fix the problem or take him out of the race if the rear wing could not be fixed.