FIA 'not rushing' to close loophole Red Bull exposed with Sergio Perez at F1 Japanese GP
Perez endured a nightmare race at Suzuka as he collided with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton on the first lap and then clumsily clashed with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kevin Magnussen.
The Mexican picked up two separate five-second 🎉time penalties and was called in to retire his Red Bull car on Lap 15, shortly after his incident with Magnussen.
However, Perez was bizarrely sent back out into the rac🉐e 26 laps later so he could serve his second time penalty after it emerged that his punishment could be carried over to the next grand prix, potentially in the form of a grid dro𒈔p.
After pitting🍸 to serve his penalt🔯y, Perez was called back into the pits to retire for good on Lap 43.
Sky F1's pitlane reporter Ted Kravitz had reported that the ꦅFIA were keen to address the loophole in time for the 💞next race in Qatar.
“♈He [Perez] was a DNF, then he was not, then he was a DNF again,” Kravitz said on his post-r♊ace Notebook on Sky.
“He clashed with Hamilton at the start, had to pit under the Safety Car for a new nose. He served one ꧑penalty but not all of them. He overtook under Safety Car and got a five-second penalty, then he hit Magnussen and had another pitstop.
“They stopped him for seven or eight laps then realised that there is a loophole in the rules that means… the rule says: “The st൲ewards may impose a g꧟rid penalty at the next race if you don’t serve your five-second penalty for certain infringements.”
“‘May’ doesn’t mean ‘will’.
“Jonathan Wheatley [Red Bull sporting director] and the team were thinking that it’s pไossible, and maybe likely, that the stewards will impose a grid penalty at the next race if they haven’t served their penalty.
“They saw that loophole. They asked the FIA if they agreed that, if they rejoined the race and served the penalty that it ⛄would be cleared up. The FIA said yes, so they did it, and it worked.
“I think Checo was already in hiꦏs jeans, having an ice cream!
“I can tell you that the FIA, aft♈er seeing this loophole, are minded to close it off quite quickly for the next race.
“To say𝔍 that, for certain infringements if a penalty has not been served, it must be a grid penalty at the n꧂ext race.
“They won’t let Red Bull get away with gaming the rules. It was clever, don’t get me wrong! Really clever. If I was the team manager I’d𒅌 say ‘definitely do it!’
“It was great but the FIA,🐽 apparently, aren’t🐷 too happy about it.”
But the later reported "that this i𝄹s ꦬuntrue and that it won't be rushing to change the rules".
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