The FIA handed back Red Bull’s paddock curfew ‘wild card’ in Singapore.<\/p>\n
The dominant team was penalised ahead of the night race because a staff member was in the paddock during the working-day blackout period.<\/p>\n
Dr Helmut Marko, however, protested that the unidentified staff member in question was wielding a mere guest pass and had no operational connection with either the team or the cars.<\/p>\n
Indeed, it is believed he was connected to the sponsor Infiniti.<\/p>\n
“After interviewing the person and hearing the explanation it is now clear that this person is not a member of the team,” an official of the governing FIA is quoted by Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport.<\/p>\n
The FIA also lifted similar sanctions against the Mercedes and Virgin teams, who argued that they thought marketing staff were exempt from the curfew.<\/p>\n
But Auto Motor und Sport quoted an insider as insisting that team bosses agreed in Melbourne earlier this year that marketing staff “are clearly included in the ban”.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for Mercedes GP confirmed that a female member of the team’s marketing staff broke the curfew by half an hour.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Toro Rosso’s curfew penalty – imposed after boss Franz Tost entered the Singapore paddock too early – stands.<\/p>\n
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