McLaren requested the FIA at first of the season if they might use tape to mark their grid positions on this method.
Drivers are penalised if they don’t accurately place their vehicles on the grid. Placing tape on the wall by the monitor is meant to assist them do that, as visibility out of vehicles is proscribed and drivers can not simply see the strains on the monitor marking their grid field.
A stewards’ report stated {that a} Pink Bull consultant on the listening to known as to research the matter stated that the workforce member in query had “knowledgeable him that he was not conscious of the efforts of the marshals to cease him”.
The report added: “Nevertheless, the stewards decide that any particular person affiliated to a workforce or different stakeholders needs to be conscious that coming into the monitor or hindering the security measures to organize the monitor for the race after the grid has been cleared is totally prohibited.
“Thus, no matter whether or not or not the directions of the related officers have been realised by the particular person involved, hindering or delaying the method of closing the gates earlier than the race begin have to be thought of as an unsafe act and due to this fact a major penalty to the workforce is warranted.”
McLaren and Pink Bull declined to remark.
Earlier than the rationale for the incident got here to mild and earlier than the stewards had issued their verdict, Pink Bull workforce principal Laurent Mekies stated he believed the incident was “a misunderstanding”.
He added: “We went to see the video with the FIA. Positive, it is one thing we will do higher sooner or later, however definitely on our facet we don’t really feel that we now have ignored any directions and we didn’t get any particular directions.
“So I believe it is very small issues, however nonetheless one thing we are going to handle sooner or later.”
