{"id":19384,"date":"2013-09-24T07:11:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19384"},"modified":"2013-09-24T07:11:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T11:11:02","slug":"fia-to-brief-drivers-after-webber-alonso-mischief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/fia-to-brief-drivers-after-webber-alonso-mischief\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA to brief drivers after Webber-Alonso mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FIA is set to clamp down on the sort of shenanigans seen on the slowing-down lap after Sunday’s Singapore grand prix.<\/p>\n

\"Derek-Warwick\"Fernando Alonso was reprimanded, and Mark Webber pushed ten places down the Korea grid, after the stricken Australian hitched a ride back to the pits on the sidepod of Alonso’s Ferrari.<\/p>\n

It triggered great memories of 1991, when legend Ayrton Senna rode on the Williams sidepod of rival Nigel Mansell at Silverstone.<\/p>\n

However, publishing video footage of the moment Webber ran across the track to climb onto the Ferrari, after Alonso stopped on the racing line after a blind corner in front of following cars, Blick correspondent said the pair had been clearly “reckless”.<\/p>\n

Referring to Webber’s harsh penalty, Swiss steward Paul Gutjahr insisted: “We could not do otherwise.”<\/p>\n

Another Singapore steward, former F1 driver Derek Warwick, agreed: “It is not health and safety gone mad.<\/p>\n

“I hope we’re not seen as killjoys.\u00a0 I want formula one to be entertaining.\u00a0 I want it to be a spectacle,” he told the Telegraph.<\/p>\n

“(But) a driver could easily have been hurt.”<\/p>\n

According to the Spanish sports newspaper AS, the FIA could now tighten the rules to make clearer what is expected of the drivers.<\/p>\n

It is expected the drivers will be briefed in detail ahead of next weekend’s Korean grand prix.<\/p>\n

“We have become a bit sterile in many ways in formula one,” Warwick continued.\u00a0 “But we cannot put drivers at risk.<\/p>\n

“If it had been done in a safer manner then it might have been viewed differently, but this was potentially very dangerous.”<\/p>\n

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The FIA is set to clamp down on the sort of shenanigans seen on the slowing-down lap after Sunday’s Singapore grand prix. Fernando Alonso was reprimanded, and Mark Webber pushed ten places down the Korea grid, after the stricken Australian hitched a ride back to the pits on the sidepod of Alonso’s Ferrari. It triggered …<\/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":[3],"tags":[1343,5262,149,5300,5340,1282,165,1656,2130],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19384"}],"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=19384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19385,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19384\/revisions\/19385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}