{"id":16364,"date":"2012-07-16T19:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T23:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=16364"},"modified":"2012-07-16T19:05:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T23:05:05","slug":"fia-clarifies-defensive-driving-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-clarifies-defensive-driving-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA clarifies defensive driving rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F1 drivers may use the entire width of the circuit to defend position during a grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-right alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Charlie-Whiting.jpg\" alt=\"Charlie-Whiting\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>FIA race director Charlie Whiting made the clarification in a note to teams, the French news agency AFP has reported.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling follows several controversial incidents in 2012, including Nico Rosberg&#8217;s defensive moves against Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>Whiting says moves like that, where the &#8220;full width&#8221; of the track is used, are acceptable so long as a &#8220;significant portion&#8221; of the chasing car is not alongside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For the avoidance of doubt,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;if any part of the front wing of the car attempting to pass is alongside the rear wheel of the car in front this will be deemed to be a significant portion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 drivers may use the entire width of the circuit to defend position during a grand prix. FIA race director Charlie Whiting made the clarification in a note to teams, the French news agency AFP has reported. The ruling follows several controversial incidents in 2012, including Nico Rosberg&#8217;s defensive moves against Lewis Hamilton and Fernando &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[810,5262,149,5300,5340,154,4],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16365,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16364\/revisions\/16365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}