The FIA has announced revised radio limits for Formula One teams ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix after the Nico Rosberg controversy of the British GP.
At Silverstone, the German driver was stripped of his second plan when stewards discovered that his Mercedes team had breached the limits of providing drivers with information to increase their performance.
Starting from this weekend’s race in Hungary, the pitwall is only permitted to tell a driver of a problem with the car if the driver is then instructed to return to the pitlane for the necessary repairs to be carried out. As an additional pitstop will hurt the driver and team in question, no additional time penalties will be handed out. This should also resolve the issue of teams breaking the limits knowing that they may only receive a small 10-second penalty from race management.
The FIA specifically said that a permitted message must include an “Indication of a problem with the car, any message of this sort must include an irreversible instruction to enter the pits to rectify the problem or to retire the car.”
On the back of this announcement, Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel slammed the FIA’s decision saying it is “complete bull***t”.
“I looked at the race [British GP] after and I found as a spectator it was quite entertaining to hear driver panicking on the radio and the team panicking at the same time, it was the element of human being in our sport that is very complicated and technical so I think that’s the wrong way.
“We’re going the wrong way, it’s bad, we should just go back to saying what we want,” the four-time champion said.
Via Motorsport and The Telegraph
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