Fernando Alonso may have been the winner from the debacle but the FIA were defiantly the loser. F1
With Alonso being informed of the penalty over an hour after the alleged transgression, key wording in the final decision documents reveal the matter was re-opened by RC on the very last lap of the race.
Why did the stewards decide to open back up the matter? One can only imagine a competitor team had broached the topic with RC, with the Race Director and Sporting Director both pointing out that what the teams had agreed with the Sporting Advisory Committee was that ‘no part of the car could be touched while a penalty was being served’.
However, all this means that new weaknesses in the Regulations have been identified. Aston Martin boss Mike Krack referred to the rule as ‘ambiguous’, a word thatAfter all, root-and-branch reviews of all the Regulations books undertaken since Abu Dhabi ’21 were supposed to address areas of ambiguity for the sake of clarity. It was ambiguous wording of rules which allowed for the infamous “any does not mean all” defence regarding unlapped cars behind the Safety Car.
Referring back to Abu Dhabi 2021, the verbal agreement between the teams that races should end under green flag conditions where possible, an agreement that came to light afterward, was a far from binding rule that didn’t exist in the Regulations.
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