Sao Paulo Grand Prix
Tsunoda reprimand, Sao Paulo GP 2023ignored race director
OutcomeReprimand - safety-car infringement
← This resolved the original summons
Infringement · Published
- Driver
- Tsunoda · 3/12 penalty points (rolling 12 months)
- 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 22 Yuki Tsunoda Scuderia AlphaTauri 11:09:59 5 (SQ1)
- What this outcome means
- Reprimand explained →
- Regulation cited
- Art. 33.4, Art. 12.2.1
- Stewards' reasoning
- The Stewards thoroughly reviewed marshalling/positioning data, timing data and on-board cameras. TSU completed a cool-down lap and maintained their delta for most of the lap. TSU crossed SC2 Line just after LEC who was exiting the pit. Therefore, TSU had to slow down to create a gap between them and LEC. During the hearing TSU stated that they felt they had to decide between exceeding the delta… full reasoning ↗
Source: FIA stewards' decision document (PDF, fia.com). The Time Penalty links to the official document and, where it can, summarises the outcome in a sentence; it does not host or alter the document.
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