Ferrari fined $100,000 for group orders, to face FIA World Council
Ferrari has been fined $100,000 as well as right away faces a rage of a FIA’s World Motor Sport Council.
A outcry erupted after Sunday’s German grand prix, in that Felipe Massa changed in reserve for leader Fernando Alonso after a Brazilian’s operative told him a Spaniard was faster.
Team government, as well as after a drivers, were summoned by a stewards, where Ferrari blankly denied the situation was the transparent crack of a rule prohibiting result-altering group orders.
The result stands, but a inform will be sent to the FIA’s decision-making legislature, due to a alleged team orders crack and a assign of shame.
Ferrari denies that competition operative Rob Smedley’s airwave message to Massa before to the Brazilian vouchsafing Alonso pass amounted to group orders.
“It was the motorist preference,” pronounced orator Luca Colajanni. “We didn’t give any instruction at all.”
Team boss Stefano Domenicali combined: “He (Smedley) gave a Inform which he (Massa) was slower than a other automobile. We give the Inform, it is up to a motorist to manage a incident.”
Massa reliable that he had decided to let Alonso pass.
“Yes (it was my preference. We do not have group orders. I was struggling on a hard tyres, as I have most times this year.”
And Alonso denied he knew about the team sequence.
“I suspicion it was the gear complaint (on Massa’s automobile. When I saw him negligence down, I was surprised,” pronounced the Spaniard.
Source: GMM
