German Grand Prix
Offence
Giovinazzi penalty, German GP 2019 - 10s stop-go for race start
Outcome10 second Stop-and-go penalty imposed after the race d) of the FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations. (30 seconds added to elapsed race time)
Published
An official FIA stewards' document from the 2019 German Grand Prix (race).
- Driver
- Giovinazzi
- What happened
- The torque in the clutch at the start did not match the torque demand as the driver released the clutch within the specified 70 millisecond maximum period. This time was measured at approximately 300 milliseconds.
- What this outcome means
- Stop-and-go penalty explained →
- Regulation cited
- Art. 38.3, Art. 27.1
- Stewards' reasoning
- Article 27.1 of the Formula One Sporting Regulations specifies that “The Driver must drive the car alone and unaided.” In order to guide the teams as to how they can conform to this regulation, the FIA’s Formula One department has published to the teams a document specifying how each of the various systems that could aid a driver would be regulated. The Stewards considered that this document ha…
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