On the cooldown lap after the end a major variety of spectators made it onto the course earlier than all vehicles had made it again to parc ferme.
Motorsport.com understands that, as it isn’t the primary time an analogous incident has occurred at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the FIA determined to agency up its response by formally summoning the Canadian promoters, the Octane Racing Group, over the recurring concern.
After investigating the incident, the stewards discovered the native promoter in breach of article 12.2.1.h of the Worldwide Sporting Code, noting a “failure to take cheap measures, thus leading to an unsafe state of affairs”.
They judged that primarily based on video proof “the safety measures and/or safety officers and/or gear which have been anticipated to be in place for the occasion weren’t both enforced or weren’t adequate leading to an unsafe surroundings for the spectators and drivers.”
Within the stewards’ listening to the promoter admitted that the occasion’s safety precautions weren’t strong sufficient to forestall an early monitor invasion, regardless of allocating extra sources to it, and agreed the state of affairs was not acceptable and can be investigated totally.
The stewards determined that the promoter should current a proper remediation plan to the FIA by 30 September that may lay out how the state of affairs might be prevented from occurring once more.
Additionally they urged the FIA to look into the matter because it pertains to a critical concern round security and safety, and warned one other repeat can be met with a major monetary penalty.
Early monitor invasions usually are not unusual, with the Australian Grand Prix promoters additionally pulled up over related issues on the 2023 version of the Melbourne race.
Followers on the finish of the Australian GP
Photograph by: Lionel Ng / Motorsport Photographs
Along with spectators invading the monitor whereas vehicles have been nonetheless working, some followers additionally reached the stranded Haas of Nico Hulkenberg.
In response the post-race Australian GP monitor invasion was banned for 2024, marking a short lived finish to a long-standing Melbourne custom.
An identical state of affairs additionally occurred on the 2023 Brazilian Grand Prix, the place followers broke onto the monitor at Flip 1 because the vehicles took the chequered flag.
Canada’s entertaining wet-to-dry race was gained by Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen, who defeated McLaren driver Lando Norris and Mercedes’ polesitter George Russell.
The Montreal race was attended by a document variety of 350,000 spectators throughout the four-day occasion, up from 345,000 in 2023, and was stricken by a number of different logistical points on the cramped surroundings of the man-made island that homes the semi-permanent circuit.
