{"id":807745,"date":"2026-07-18T07:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T07:09:11","slug":"ferrari-f1-boss-predicts-fia-punishment-after-belgian-gp-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807745\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari F1 boss predicts FIA punishment after Belgian GP investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has admitted he is expecting the team to be fined after being placed under investigation at Spa-Francorchamps.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Italian squad has been flagged for an alleged infringement of Article 6.4.2. of the sporting regulations.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This reads: \u201cAny set of electronically returned tyres must also be physically returned to the Tyre Supplier before the start of the following session.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>While Ferrari successfully returned their tyres electronically after FP1, it failed to deliver the actual structures to Pirelli before the start of FP2.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It has resulted in an investigation from the stewards &#8211; but Vasseur does not believe it is in danger of being issued a grid drop.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were late,\u201d Vasseur said after the session. \u201cIt will be a fine.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton was the fastest of the two Ferraris at the end of FP2, ending the session in fourth place.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>His team-mate Charles Leclerc, however, could only muster 11th.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the day of running at Spa, Vasseur said: \u201cIt went pretty well this morning.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bit more difficult this afternoon, but it&#8217;s relative. \u00a0We know that fuel is very important in terms of competitiveness.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means that we can&#8217;t compare with the others. We focus on ourselves, try to get the best out of it and we will see tomorrow.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has admitted he is expecting the team to be fined after being placed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807746,"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":["post-807745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807745","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=807745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}