The FIA has disqualified Audi driver Gabriel Bortoleto from the Miami Grand Prix Sprint race over a technical rules breach.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian had finished in 11th place on the road, but during the routine post-session technical checks, it was found by scrutineers that the pressure of the engine air intake exceeded the legal limit of 4.8 bar.<\/p>\n
As such, Bortoleto was formally disqualified to cap off a miserable Sprint for Audi, for which Nico Hulkenberg failed to start following a fiery exit on the out-lap to the grid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the verdict, the FIA outlined: \u201cThe Stewards reviewed the report received from the Technical Delegate and found that the requirement was for the engine intake air pressure to be less than 4.8 barA at all times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pressure was measured by two FIA approved devices that were installed in FIA approved locations situated in the engine intake air system downstream of the charge air cooling system. The Stewards heard from the team representatives of Car 5.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey admitted that the Technical Delegate\u2019s finding was correct. However, in mitigation, they explained that this happened over one lap, when the temperatures rose higher than they had expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as that became apparent, they took steps to bring the pressure back in line with the regulations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the fact that they took steps to bring the car back in compliance is recognised, the regulations make it clear that the car needs to be in compliance \u2018at all times\u2019, which it was not.<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven that this is a technical infringement, the usual penalty of a disqualification of Car 5 from the Sprint classification was applied.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIA has disqualified Audi driver Gabriel Bortoleto from the Miami Grand Prix Sprint race over a technical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-408914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","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-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}