The Race<\/a> reports, McLaren had used tape on the side of the wall nearest to Norris to help him position his car as close as possible to the front of the grid box, where he was positioned on the front row alongside pole-sitter Verstappen.<\/p>\nMcLaren has made a habit of using tape on the side of the barriers to help Norris line his McLaren up. Drivers are punished for exceeding the limits of the starting block.<\/p>\n
According to the BBC, it is also not the first time Red Bull officials have attempted to remove the taping signage used by their F1 rivals. <\/p>\n
McLaren is reported to have been granted permission by the FIA at the start of the season to use tape markings, with F1 officials ruling the use of signage is outside the governing body\u2019s jurisdiction. <\/p>\n
For this reason, the use of signage markers is also unprotected by FIA rules, allowing Red Bull officials to remove the tape without any rules being breached. <\/p>\n
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It is the wild west, and Monday\u2019s hearing has exposed the shadow game being played out between the rival garages. <\/p>\n
Red Bull is only being punished for the rogue employee\u2019s decision to re-enter the track, not for removing the tape. <\/p>\n
The stewards said: \u201cA team member re-entered the gate well area at Gate 1 in proximity of the second grid position after the formation lap had commenced, and at the moment the pit marshals started to close the gate. <\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to the report from the pit marshals, the team member did not appear to react to their efforts to prevent him from entering the gate well area. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe team representative stated during the hearing that the team member informed him that he was not aware of the efforts of the marshals to stop him. <\/p>\n
The grid on Sunday (L) and Lando Norris\u2019 car on the grid in Monaco, where the tape on the pit wall was also used.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the Stewards determine that any person affiliated to a team or other stakeholders should be aware that entering the track or hindering the safety measures to prepare the track for the race after the grid has been cleared is absolutely prohibited. <\/p>\n
\u201cThus, irrespective of whether or not the instructions of the relevant officials have been realised by the person concerned, hindering or delaying the process of closing the gates before the race start must be considered as an unsafe act and therefore a significant penalty to the team is warranted. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn order to prevent any reoccurrence, a portion of the financial penalty is suspended.\u201d<\/p>\n
Red Bull and McLaren have not yet made any public comment about the rule breach ruling. <\/p>\n
Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies did make a comment before the verdict was announced.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was felt that some time during the grid procedures, one of our guys had not followed the officials\u2019 or some marshal\u2019s instructions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe spoke with our people, they are very positive that they have followed the marshals\u2019 instructions at all times. So I think it\u2019s probably a misunderstanding there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe went to see the video with the FIA and for sure it\u2019s something we can do better in the future, but certainly on our side, we do not feel that we have ignored an instruction, so I think it\u2019s a very small thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut nonetheless, something we address in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull has been fined by Formula 1\u2019s governing body after being exposed for an apparent act of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-227654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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