Spanish Grand Prix
Car 36 reprimand, Spanish GP 2022impeding
OutcomeReprimand for the driver. This is the driver’s 1st Reprimand of the Season (Driving) - impeding
Offence · Published
- What happened
- Impeding of Russell by Car 36 at turn 12.
- What this outcome means
- Reprimand explained →
- Offence
- Impeding - every ruling & the going rate →
Going rate across 19 rulings in 2022: Reprimand ×8 · No action ×7 · Fine ×3
- Stewards' reasoning
- The Stewards heard from the driver of Car 36 (Juri Vips) and team representatives and examined video evidence. The team manager indicated that the team had provided the driver the wrong information having had a software issue. Thus the driver was following the team’s advice, but was certainly driving slowly on the racing line and forced Russell to take evasive action thereby unnecessarily imped… full reasoning ↗
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