Sao Paulo Grand Prix
Stewards' decisionsafety car, Sao Paulo GP 2023
Outcome Summary pending - read the FIA document ↗
Decision · Published
- What happened
- The cars below exceeded the 1:14.0-time limit between the Safety Car lines. No Car Driver Competitor Time of Day Lap 1 63 George Russell Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team 11:06:32 4 (SQ1) 2 81 Oscar Piastri McLaren F1 Team 11:10:53 6 (SQ1) 3 31 Esteban Ocon BWT Alpine F1 Team 11:10:57 5 (SQ1) 4 63 George Russell Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team 11:11:16 5 (SQ1)
- 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 and on-board cameras. All drivers concerned stayed at or above speeds necessary to stay below 1:14.0 around the vast majority of the circuit. However, in all cases the Stewards determined that the drivers took appropriate actions to not impede other drivers, and in all cases they slowed down significantly to allow other… full reasoning ↗
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