{"id":5555,"date":"2010-05-19T06:34:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2010-05-19T06:34:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:34:20","slug":"stewards-too-busy-to-consider-barrichello-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/stewards-too-busy-to-consider-barrichello-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewards too busy to consider Barrichello penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the three stewards on duty in Monaco last weekend has revealed the officials were too busy to consider giving Rubens Barrichello a penalty.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After Michael Schumacher was demoted six places for illegally overtaking Fernando Alonso on the last lap, it was suggested that Brazilian Barrichello should also have received a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage during the race showed the Williams driver throwing his steering wheel onto the racing line after crashing, only for it to be collected by HRT&#8217;s Karun Chandhok.<\/p>\n<p>The steering wheel was then dislodged in the tunnel, only for it to be run over by the other Hispania car.<\/p>\n<p>Barrichello, 37, has denied he acted recklessly by arguing that he wanted to quickly abandon the burning wreck that was facing the wrong way on the racing line.<\/p>\n<p>But Paul Gutjahr, one of the four Monaco stewards, told Switzerland&#8217;s Blick newspaper that the incident did not initially escape their attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Actually, we had Barrichello on the list,&#8221; the Swiss admitted.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the issue simply fell off the agenda in the &#8220;hectic rush&#8221; to sort out the controversial Schumacher manoeuvre.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the three stewards on duty in Monaco last weekend has revealed the officials were too busy to consider giving Rubens Barrichello a penalty.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,742,1564,1656,352],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555"}],"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=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}