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Joe911 said:
www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/54506
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The FIA have now reacted to what happened at Monza and will now change the way that incidents are dealt with.
FIA race director Charlie Whiting has written to the teams and told them that the stewards will no longer investigate all complaints of blocking from teams. Instead they will only look at those that he feels shows deliberate intent to impede a rival.
In Whiting's fax, he wrote: "Complaints that a driver has been impeded during qualifying will no longer be referred to the stewards of the meeting. Only in cases where it appears to race control that there has been a clear and deliberate attempt to impede another driver will the stewards be asked to intervene."
And in a sentence aimed clearly at Renault's reaction to what happened at Monza, he added: "We now feel it is pointless for the stewards to engage in long and painstaking enquiries if competitors ignore clear scientific evidence and instead abuse the regulator."
Autosport.com revealed on Sunday that FIA president Max Mosley was pushing for a change in the rules so that penalties were only handed out for deliberate blocking.
AutoSport said:
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The FIA have now reacted to what happened at Monza and will now change the way that incidents are dealt with.
FIA race director Charlie Whiting has written to the teams and told them that the stewards will no longer investigate all complaints of blocking from teams. Instead they will only look at those that he feels shows deliberate intent to impede a rival.
In Whiting's fax, he wrote: "Complaints that a driver has been impeded during qualifying will no longer be referred to the stewards of the meeting. Only in cases where it appears to race control that there has been a clear and deliberate attempt to impede another driver will the stewards be asked to intervene."
And in a sentence aimed clearly at Renault's reaction to what happened at Monza, he added: "We now feel it is pointless for the stewards to engage in long and painstaking enquiries if competitors ignore clear scientific evidence and instead abuse the regulator."
Autosport.com revealed on Sunday that FIA president Max Mosley was pushing for a change in the rules so that penalties were only handed out for deliberate blocking.
Notice that when the matter involves changing the historic interpretation should it benefit Schumacher (chicane-cutting), the FIA's got no problem making their decision at the moment that it counts.
When the matter involves changing the historic interpretation in order to protect Schumacher (Alonso losing five grid positions), the FIA cannot even figure it out in the five hours between the incident and the announcement of their ruling.
They only make the change after the race is over and Alonso's been stuffed.
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