Five-sec penalties to nine drivers
Jun 29, 2010 | 10:22 AM
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Five-sec penalties to nine drivers
From PlanetF1.com:
Nine drivers have been handed five-second penalties for infringing Safety Car rules during the European Grand Prix.
Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello, Nico Hulkenberg, Robert Kubica, Vitaly Petrov, Adrian Sutil, Sebastien Buemi, Pedro de la Rosa and Vitantonio Liuzzi were all investigated after the race for speeding while the Safety Car was out in Valencia.
Despite the mass penalties only three places in the top 10 are affected with Fernando Alonso, who finished ninth, swapping places with eighth-place finisher Buemi and Sauber's de la Rosa losing his 10th place to Merc GP's Nico Rosberg.
In an unrelated incident, Virgin's Timo Glock has been slapped with a 20-second post-race penalty for ignoring blue flags during the race.
Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello, Nico Hulkenberg, Robert Kubica, Vitaly Petrov, Adrian Sutil, Sebastien Buemi, Pedro de la Rosa and Vitantonio Liuzzi were all investigated after the race for speeding while the Safety Car was out in Valencia.
Despite the mass penalties only three places in the top 10 are affected with Fernando Alonso, who finished ninth, swapping places with eighth-place finisher Buemi and Sauber's de la Rosa losing his 10th place to Merc GP's Nico Rosberg.
In an unrelated incident, Virgin's Timo Glock has been slapped with a 20-second post-race penalty for ignoring blue flags during the race.
Jun 29, 2010 | 10:31 AM
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The pace car situation was pretty retarded, I think the fact that so many pros couldn't figure out what to do shows that the FIA was to blame as much as anyone. Why was the car sticking in the pit lane when the cars were coming around? How were they supposed to know they were being "picked up" when the car wouldn't even pull out in front of them? Normally the pace car would be out in front before the lead car got there, not desperately accelerating after the car is right behind and not even on the track.
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