Black and White Flagįormula 1’s black and white flag is equivalent to football’s yellow card. Seeing the flag necessitates the driver to return to the pit lane to fix the issue or retire. The black flag with an orange circle is shown not for breaking the rules, but for having a problem with the car. This is yet another flag that no Formula 1 driver wants to see. Mazepin fechando o Lewis Hamilton ksksksjsksksksk #F1naBand /s952zfnSnu It happened to ex-Haas driver Nikita Mazepin at the 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix when he received a five-second time penalty after ignoring five blue flags for blocking Red Bull’s Sergio Perez.Īnother incident occurred at the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix when Mazepin blocked Lewis Hamilton and caused him to lose time but was only given one blue flag. If the driver ignores three consecutive flags, a penalty is issued to the driver. It indicates that the driver in front who is one or more laps down must let the faster car(s) behind them pass.

The blue flag is one of the flags most commonly used in Formula 1.

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