System One’s governing physique made a tweak to the security automobile guidelines on Tuesday to keep away from a repeat of the controversy that erupted after final yr’s title-deciding race in Abu Dhabi.

Race director Michael Masi, who was changed final month, modified the process within the closing laps at Yas Marina in a transfer that allowed Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen to move Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and take the title.

Hamilton would in any other case have taken a report eighth championship.

The governing FIA spelled out in a revised version of the 2022 sporting rules that ‘all’, reasonably than the extra ambiguous ‘any’, lapped automobiles should unlap themselves earlier than a re-start.

Masi had allowed the race to renew after solely the lapped automobiles between Verstappen and Hamilton, then main, had unlapped themselves.

That allowed sufficient time for one final lap of racing, with the Dutchman on recent tyres and in a position to overtake his title rival.

Masi has since been changed by two officers, Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas, who will share the race director job as a part of a wider restructuring of the refereeing course of.

They are going to be assisted by FIA stalwart Herbie Blash who will return as everlasting senior advisor, having retired in 2016 after 50 years within the sport. Blash was beforehand assistant to the late race director Charlie Whiting.

The brand new season begins in Bahrain this weekend.