Drivers are not allowed to drive slower than a certain delta time between safety car lines two and one, which covers everything but the pit area, to avoid dangerous situations in which cars approach each other at wildly different speeds.
At recent races that meant drivers were using the pitlane and pit exit instead to leave a gap to the car in front and get clean air for their qualifying lap, while still having the space to warm up their tyres.
In Abu Dhabi that led to issues at Yas Marina Circuit's tunnelled pit exit that crosses over to the other side of the track, with drivers effectively blocking each other and Red Bull's Max Verstappen squeezing past the Mercedes cars in Friday practice in the narrow lane.
The FIA responded by banning drivers from overtaking each other before the end of pit exit unless the car in front has an "obvious issue".
Norris thinks the bandaid fix just creates more issues and hopes the FIA will walk back its outlap rule changes.
"No, I think it is a terrible rule," he said when quizzed by Autosport on whether or not the new rule had worked.
"The thing is they have to have the rule, because of the other silly rule that they made us do.
"If there's a red flag and three minutes left, there's going to be like three cars who get to do a lap so...I don't know. We should just go back to the way it was before."
Source: Autosport