FIA announces revised penalties

By Andrew Hooper
January 17 2004

   
Revised penalties
 
After a Friday meeting with the Formula One teams FIA president Max Mosley announced that they had agreed to revise procedures involved in handing out penalties. Such a measure is the removal of drive-through penalties.

Mosley said: "We are going to tell the drivers at the first race that we will no longer have drive-through or stop-go penalties where there is an incident between two cars but one or both cars continue in the race. There will be a hearing after the race and then a penalty will be imposed, depending on the gravity of the offence.

Mosley added: "If that happens three times in a season the stewards are going to look very seriously into giving (the driver) a one race suspension. It won't be automatic but they will look at it very seriously."

The purpose of these changes are to ensure that drivers are aware that if they continually are involved in incidents then they can expect a penalty. But it allows for close racing and with close racing you do have the potential for incidents.

Mosley added: "This is more flexible than that but there is the principle that someone who keeps on causing an accident in a dangerous way will be looking at a suspension. But we don't want to discourage people from racing."
 
 
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