FIA tightens rules after elevator Webber with Alonso

Posted on 26-09-2013 at 19:31 by ricardo – 35 Comments”

Crazy Mark. Just like on F1 cars climbing is of course not appreciated by Ecclestone and Co.

Last Sunday, in the uitrijronde of the Grand Prix of Singapore, attacked the car of Mark Webber with engine problems. To that grafeind back to the pits then not having to walk, and because it simply is awesome, climbed Webber “on board” on the single-seater of Fernando Alonso. Two drivers of Mercedes had to swerve for Fer, but the action continued without any problems.

The FIA, however, was inexorable, and put the Red Bull driver is immediately a penalty. Not in the last last because it already Most third offense was this season. The without the permission of the marshalls, the job entry meant this time that he was at the next GP (Korea, about a week and a half) ten places will be restored. Alonso came from with a reprimand.

The unauthorized free-riding is the FIA seemingly more straight than we thought, because according to the Spanish newspaper AS the rules are tightened up, and get the riders on that in Korea a briefing, which Bernie the role of Sgt. Buzzkill furthermore wields.

On the other hand, the FIA wants, is simply not that drivers go fumble around on the job. Or, as the Autoweek.com quoted marshall and former F1 driver Derek Warwick says:

“It is not health and safety gone mad. I hope we’re not seen as killjoys. I want Formula One to be entertaining. I want it to be a spectacle, (but) a driver could easily have been hurt. We have become a bit sterile in many ways in Formula One. But we cannot put drivers at risk. If it had been done in a safer manner then it might have been viewed differently, but this was potentially very dangerous.”

We also have new video of the spontaneous meeliftsessie of the 37-year-old Australian. Video HERE, and judge for yourself: can the proverbial bracket?