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Nico Rosberg has been hit with a 10-second penalty after the stewards decided in a lengthy meeting that the driver in question received radio messages from his team that were in breach of F1's new regulations that require a driver to drive his car 'alone and unaided'
The Mercedes driver was judged to have exceeded the maximum time between the two safety car lines at the start of Q1.
A statement issued by the FIA said that he would have to explain later why he had breached Article 27.5 of the Sporting Regulations for "exceeding the maximum time set by the FIA between the Safety Car line after the pit exit and Safety Car line before the pit entry at 13.05."
Rosberg could be given a grid penalty, a reprimand or fine for the offence if he is found guilty.
Apparently he did a 2m26.444s lap.GPR-A wrote:Wow... Bit of a news here...
Rosberg summoned over alleged rules breachThe Mercedes driver was judged to have exceeded the maximum time between the two safety car lines at the start of Q1.
A statement issued by the FIA said that he would have to explain later why he had breached Article 27.5 of the Sporting Regulations for "exceeding the maximum time set by the FIA between the Safety Car line after the pit exit and Safety Car line before the pit entry at 13.05."
Rosberg could be given a grid penalty, a reprimand or fine for the offence if he is found guilty.
His ICE numbers aren't his problem though.dans79 wrote:Restomaniac wrote:Thats an interesting thought actually.dans79 wrote:
as I mentioned in the Merc team thread, the rule tweak last year allows Lewis to replace every component as many times as he wants in a race weekend and worst case he starts last. So, come Spa, he will most likely start last but pick up 2 or 3 completely new engines, and be fine for the rest of the season. At Spa, he would still probably finish 5th or higher, and thus not loose to many points.
However he needs to get to Spa and he is already on 5 components in 2 areas. The last thing he needs right now is extra mileage.
Lewis fitted a new engine in Austria, any only has to make it through Silverstone, hungry, & Hockenheim. The motors were supposed to be able to get through six races each, so 4 plus an extra dozen laps is nothing.
No penaltyGPR-A wrote:Wow... Bit of a news here...
Rosberg summoned over alleged rules breachThe Mercedes driver was judged to have exceeded the maximum time between the two safety car lines at the start of Q1.
A statement issued by the FIA said that he would have to explain later why he had breached Article 27.5 of the Sporting Regulations for "exceeding the maximum time set by the FIA between the Safety Car line after the pit exit and Safety Car line before the pit entry at 13.05."
Rosberg could be given a grid penalty, a reprimand or fine for the offence if he is found guilty.
Indeed! And by a margin. Somehow, Ferrari managed again to f*ck up over a season. Since many years it seems they are genuinely unable to develop the car over a season. Admittedly race pace doesn't seem to suffer as badly as Q performance but the trend of the latter really sucks. I guess they switched to the 2017 car already, at least that would make sense. 2nd place in WCC should be more or less safe and the season is lost already for them.justmoi wrote:Ferrari < Redbull in Q wow
Jenson Button's exit in the first part of Formula 1 qualifying for the British Grand Prix was the result of a loose rear wing that prevented him from running again.
The McLaren driver watched on from the pits as he was bumped out of contention for a spot in Q2, having had his only run in the session compromised when his rear wing detached from the floor halfway round his flying lap.
"The rear wing came detached from the floor coming out of Turn 8 [Woodcote]," Button said.
"It just slowly deteriorated from there with the rear of the car - we lost a lot of downforce.
"All the way through the high-speed corners I was telling the guys there was a lot of oversteer.
"I'm surprised I did the time I did. We tried to fix it to go out again but we ran out of time.
"We missed doing a run with the car in the shape it should have been."
Button almost got a reprieve when it appeared Kevin Magnussen could lose his place in Q2 as a result of a track limits infringement.
But after the McLaren driver ran back to the pits a decision was not made on Magnussen's lap in time to allow him to compete in the next stage of qualifying.
"We weren't confused, we were just waiting for information," said Button.
"Supposedly Kevin drove off the circuit - I haven't seen it.
"We thought he'd get his lap taken away.
"It's a shame they couldn't do something before Q2 because as soon as Q2 starts it's game over.
"We were very unlucky to be 17th, and unlucky they didn't make a decision on Kevin before the end of Q1.
"That's frustrating but the main issue for us was the rear wing wobbling around all over the place."
Team-mate Fernando Alonso, who will start ninth after making it through to Q3, said Button's failure was another worrying sign of reliability problems for McLaren following 'engine data issues' that cost the Briton running on Friday.
"I've been hurt by reliability issues in the last two races and now Jenson yesterday and today in qualifying," said Alonso.
"So yeah, we have a problem - we need to keep working not only on performance but the reliability side.
"We need to make sure everything is good for tomorrow. We are more or less in the top 10 this weekend, so why not in the race?
"We are in the middle of the fight and able to compete with the people around us.
"We still need speed on the straight but here we can compensate with the long corners at Silverstone.
"We just need to make sure reliability is OK."
I hope the only reason is because they are concentrated on 2017 but its still annoying they 0 capacity of improving the car over the season. 2nd position safe? I doubt if this trend continues.henra wrote:Indeed! And by a margin. Somehow, Ferrari managed again to f*ck up over a season. Since many years it seems they are genuinely unable to develop the car over a season. Admittedly race pace doesn't seem to suffer as badly as Q performance but the trend of the latter really sucks. I guess they switched to the 2017 car already, at least that would make sense. 2nd place in WCC should be more or less safe and the season is lost already for them.justmoi wrote:Ferrari < Redbull in Q wow
Yet another pointless rule. If they're going to investigate a driver for something black-and-white (you're either above the time or not) and not penalise, why have the rule in the first place? The FIA should strip all of these silly rules out of the book.F1NAC wrote:No penaltyGPR-A wrote:Wow... Bit of a news here...
Rosberg summoned over alleged rules breachThe Mercedes driver was judged to have exceeded the maximum time between the two safety car lines at the start of Q1.
A statement issued by the FIA said that he would have to explain later why he had breached Article 27.5 of the Sporting Regulations for "exceeding the maximum time set by the FIA between the Safety Car line after the pit exit and Safety Car line before the pit entry at 13.05."
Rosberg could be given a grid penalty, a reprimand or fine for the offence if he is found guilty.
Understood.Just_a_fan wrote:Wasn't saying otherwise. I'm just rather annoyed by certain forum members who keep claiming FIA bias for the top drivers. This shows the bias isn't there at all.Vasconia wrote:
To apply the rules on some corners and other not, its quite stupid. But yes, the time is correctly deleted. Rules, even when they are stupid, are valid for everybody.
