Kevin Magnussen Penalized for Safety Car Violation: Formula 1 Updates and News

2023-08-28 06:22:30
8:14 a.m

Magnussen subsequently punished

A small addendum from yesterday: Kevin Magnussen received a ten-second penalty after the race because he left more than ten car lengths of space behind the safety car in front of him before the restart. As you know, this is not allowed.

According to the stewards, Magnussen did this to warm up his tires better and thus gain an advantage. In the classification, he drops from P14 to P16 due to the penalty. So doesn’t change much, he was far from the points anyway.

Here is the verbatim of the race stewards’ reasoning:

“When the cars left the pit lane at the resumption of the race after the red flag, Magnussen was the last car in line. Multiple times during the two laps behind the safety car he dropped back more than the required ten car lengths, sometimes as far back as 260-270m and then sped forward, all in an attempt to warm his tyres.”

“This is not permitted under Art. 58.8 of the FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations (SR) and was clearly done in order to gain an advantage in tyre temperature.”

“Previously during safety car procedures, drivers have been awarded penalty points when not following ten car lengths behind each other during the safety car. However this was during the safety car procedures when marshals and rescue personnel were on track and the penalty was issued under Art. 55.7 of the SR, and is considered potentially dangerous, which is the reason behind penalty points.”

“This case occurred during the race resumption and while there was a sporting consequence, there was no question of this being dangerous and therefore the Stewards award no penalty points.”

7:39 a.m

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