Horner asked if race director’s call was “legit” in Miami qualifying

Christian Horner was seeking answers about whether the race director had correctly applied the rule in the barmy end to Miami Grand Prix qualifying that left Max Verstappen in P9 ⬇️ F1 MiamiGP

Sky’s Ted Kravitz reported afterwards: “Why couldn’t we get it going again?

“Time was ticking down. Once he saw Leclerc’s crash, arguably had he pressed the red flag right then with [approximately] 1m 38s to go, possibly that would have been enough for an out-lap for a 1m 28s lap. Ten seconds for an out-lap. Arguably not, but possible. “But that’s not what happened. [Race director Niels] Wittich had to go through his procedures, which he did, check that the situation merited a red flag, which it did, and by that time there was only [1m 36s] left. It wasn’t possible to do the out-lap. That’s why he said the session will not resume.“After qualifying, Christian Horner and Adrian Newey were on the pitwall asking Jonathan Wheatley - the rules man at Red Bull - whether that was legit, basically.

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