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Stewards' decisionsafety car, Sao Paulo GP 2023

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Decision · Published

What happened
The car below exceeded the 1:14.0-time limit between the Safety Car lines. No Car Driver Competitor Time of Day Lap 1 18 Lance Stroll Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team 15:32:08 8 (Q1)
Offence
Safety-car infringement - every ruling & the going rate →
Going rate across 3 rulings in 2023: No action ×2 · Warning ×1
Regulation cited
Art. 33.4, Art. 12.2.1
Stewards' reasoning
The Stewards thoroughly reviewed Marshalling/Positioning data, timing data, on- board cameras and CCTV cameras. The driver concerned stayed at or above speeds necessary to stay below 1:14.0 around the vast majority of the circuit. However, in this cases the Stewards determined that the driver took appropriate actions to not impede other drivers, and in all cases they slowed down significantly t… full reasoning ↗
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