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Racing Point reprimanded over brake ducts
Racing Point has been reprimanded after the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix for using the same brake ducts that earned the team a penalty due to the design process.
Renault protested the brake ducts at the second round of the season in Austria, and the protest continued to be lodged in Hungary and last weekend at Silverstone until there was a final hearing last week. Racing Point was found guilty of breaking the sporting regulations by using Mercedes designs to copy the rear brake ducts from the W10 to use this season, and was penalized with a 15-point constructors’ championship deduction and severe fine.
However, with the stewards deeming the infringement to be the design process itself and not the legality of the technical specifications of the brake ducts, it was made clear any future use of the parts in question would still constitute a breach of sporting regulations but that a reprimand would be a sufficient penalty.
As such, when Racing Point used the same brake ducts in the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix -- finishing sixth with Lance Stroll and seventh with Nico Hulkenberg -- the team was summoned to the stewards and given another reprimand.
“The stewards of the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix believe that is important for the orderly conduct of the sport that the interpretation of the regulations by the stewards be reasonably consistent,” the latest decision read. "The stewards therefore join the decision of the special panel of stewards (that ruled on the Renault protest) and incorporate herein by reference, their findings of fact, reasoning and the reasoning behind their choice of penalties.
“This present decision should be read as entirely consistent with and drawing the same conclusions as Decision Document 4 (incl. Doc. 5) of the special panel.”
The latest reprimand is the result of the technical delegate’s report and did not come about from a protest from any other team, with the same process set to continue at every race. There is no further punishment for multiple team reprimands.
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Chris Medland
While studying Sports Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, Chris managed to talk his way into working at the British Grand Prix in 2008 and was retained for three years before joining ESPN F1 as Assistant Editor. After three further years at ESPN, a spell as F1 Editor at Crash Media Group was followed by the major task of launching F1i.com’s English-language website and running it as Editor. Present at every race since the start of 2014, he has continued building his freelance portfolio, working with international titles. As well as writing for RACER, his broadcast work includes television appearances on F1 TV and as a presenter and reporter on North America's live radio coverage on SiriusXM.
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