F1 factbox: Penalties

[marius valentine]

F1 factbox: Penalties

 

Sept 7 - Ferrari appear before F1's governing body in Paris on Wednesday for a hearing that could impose further sanctions for the use of banned 'team orders' at the German Grand Prix in July.

The Italian team have already been fined $100 000 by stewards for the incident at Hockenheim.

The following factbox is a list of previous heavy sanctions in the sport:

Sept 2009 - Renault are handed a suspended permanent ban for fixing the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix by ordering Brazilian Nelson Piquet to crash and bring out the safety car so that team mate Fernando Alonso could win. Former team principal Flavio Briatore was barred for life, a penalty later reduced on appeal to 2013. Former engineering head Pat Symonds was handed a five-year ban, also shortened subsequently. Piquet escaped sanction due to an amnesty while the FIA said it had no reason to believe Alonso had been involved in the plot.

April 2009 - McLaren handed a suspended three race ban for lying to race stewards at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. The team were told the ban would be enforced if further facts emerged or there was another breach in the next year.

2007 - McLaren stripped of all their constructors' points, and fined a record $100m as a result of Ferrari technical information being found in their possession.

2006 - Turkish Grand Prix organisers handed a $5m fine after a podium controversy at August race. Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat presented the winner's trophy and was introduced as "President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus", recognised only by Turkey.

2005 - BAR team disqualified from San Marino Grand Prix and suspended for two subsequent races after being found to have an illegal secondary fuel tank.

2002 - Champions Ferrari, Germany's Michael Schumacher and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello fined $1m for Austrian Grand Prix podium debacle after another team orders furore. Barrichello had dominated the race but was ordered to let Schumacher win. The German then broke podium protocol by insisting Barrichello join him on the top step. Half the fine was suspended for a year, payable only if they reoffended within 12 months.

1998 - Hungarian Grand Prix organisers fined $1m after a track invasion at race won by Schumacher. Seventy five percent was suspended.

1997 - Schumacher excluded from the final championship classification, but allowed to keep his race wins, after collision with Canadian Jacques Villeneuve in title-deciding European Grand Prix in Jerez.

1995 - Toyota world rally team excluded from the championship for using an illegal turbocharger.

1984 - Tyrrell excluded from competing in the second half of the championship and their results for the whole season cancelled for a technical infringement. The team, using a normally-aspirated engine against turbo-charged rivals, were found to have been racing with cars lighter than the rules allowed before having lead shot pumped in with the fuel at the final pitstop to bring the cars back up to the legal weight.