Racing driver Oleksandr Kosohov has been stripped of his Nordschleife racing licence following a serious safety violation during Saturday’s qualifying session for the 24 Hours of Nurburgring.<\/p>\n
The M\u00fchlner Motorsport driver, competing in the team’s Porsche Cayman GT4 CS, was caught travelling at 201 km\/h through a double yellow flag zone during the qualifying session on 18 April.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Under Nordschleife regulations, double yellow flags require drivers to reduce speed to a maximum of 120 km\/h and prohibit overtaking.<\/p>\n
Race officials issued an immediate and severe penalty for the breach.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The stewards’ decision stated: “Car #999 failed to respect the double yellow flag signal by travelling at 201 km\/h. The decision is a 95-second stop-and-go time penalty in the next race after the first lap, immediate disqualification of the driver from the event, and a general withdrawal of the DPN licence.”<\/p>\n
The DPN, or DMSB Permit Nordschleife, is the mandatory racing licence required to compete on the Nordschleife circuit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Its withdrawal effectively bars Kosohov from participating in future events at the legendary German track until, or if, he can reapply.<\/p>\n
The second and final race of the weekend will take place at 13:00 local time. Max Verstappen, along with team-mate Lucas Auer, will start from fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing driver Oleksandr Kosohov has been stripped of his Nordschleife racing licence following a serious safety violation during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-617359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}