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5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton on the first lap and then clumsily clashed with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Kevin Magnussen.
The Mexican picked up two separate five-second time penalties and was called in tꩵo retire his Red Bull car on Lap 15, shortly afte🌜r his incident with Magnussen.
However, Perez was b🦹izarrely sent back out into the race 26 laps later so he could serve his second time penalty after it emerged that his punishment could be carried over to the next gra🧔nd prix, potentially in the form of a grid drop.
After pitting to se𒆙rve his penalty, 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 FIA were keen to address the loophole in time for the next race in Qatar.
“He [Perez] wa👍s a DNF, then he was not, then he was a DNF again,” Kravitz said on his post-race Notebook on Sky.
“He clashed with Hamilton at the start, had to pit under 🙈the Safety Car for a new nose. He served꧋ one penalty 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 stewards may impose a grid penalty at the next race if you don’t serve your five-second penalty f🐼or certain infringements.”
“‘May’ doesn’t mean ‘will’.
“Jonathan Wheatley [Red Bull sporting director] and the team were thinking that it’s possible, and maybe likely, that the stewards will impose a grid penalty at the next race if they haven’t served their p♒enalty.
“They saw that loophole. They asked the FIA if they agreed that, if they rejoined the race and serv🐼ed 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 his jeans, having an ice cream!
“I can tel♊l you that the FIA, after seeing this loophole, ⛄are minded to close it off quite quickly for the next race.
“To say that, for certain infringements if a penalty has not been served, it must be a grid penalty 🧔at the next 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’d say ‘definiteꩲly do it!’
“I✅t was great but the FIA, apparently, aren’t too happy about it.”
But the later reported "that this is untrue and that ♒it won't be rushing to change the rules".
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