{"id":432595,"date":"2023-04-03T10:47:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T14:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432595"},"modified":"2023-04-03T05:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T09:02:37","slug":"toto-wolff-wants-clearer-red-flag-rules","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/toto-wolff-wants-clearer-red-flag-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff wants clearer red flag rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes AMG team Toto Wolff says that the sport needs clearer red flag rules after the Melbourne Grand Prix, which was dominated by three in-race red flags, leading to lengthy delays and chaotic standing restarts, the latter of which eliminated several drivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both red flags we didn&#8217;t see coming,&#8221; Wolff said. &#8220;I think [standing] restarts are a great entertainment factor. We just need to understand going forward when are red flags being put out, and what is a safety car or VSC? I think in those incidents you could have applied either.&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mercedes boss, Toto Wolff is the latest to voice concern over the lack of consistency over the use of red flags. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ayPSAkkOhK\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/ayPSAkkOhK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bsdjFYH4e7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bsdjFYH4e7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pitpass.com (@pitpassdotcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pitpassdotcom\/status\/1642793455213584384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fine whether you call a VSC or safety car, or you red flag it, as long as we understand in terms of us being able to plan a little bit. Let&#8217;s define all together what is a VSC, what is a safety car and what is a red flag.&#8221;, Wolff added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes AMG team Toto Wolff says that the sport needs clearer red flag rules after the Melbourne Grand Prix, which was dominated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":432596,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,16925],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[17986,1081],"acf":{"announce":"\"We didn't see these red flags coming\", he admitted","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432595"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432595"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}