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Title: Wrong tyres add to Williams woes
Post by: John S on September 09, 2011, 07:32:38 PM

How much worse can season get? Now team caught using wrong tyres in FP2.  :o  

Williams has been fined 5000 Euros for a breach of the tyre regulations during Friday practice at the Italian Grand Prix.

Rubens Barrichello was found to have used a set of option tyres that had not been allocated for use on Friday during second free practice.

Article 25.4 of Formula 1 Sporting Regulations state that three sets of dry-weather tyres will be allocated by the FIA technical delegate for each driver for use during P1 and P2 - made up of two 'prime' sets and 'one' option.

Drivers cannot use any other tyres from the other sets that have been allocated for the remainder of the weekend.

Autosport.com, Today.

Title: Re: Wrong tyres add to Williams woes
Post by: Alianora La Canta on September 09, 2011, 07:56:48 PM

What a mess! Williams really are in the throes of turmoil - that's the sort of thing I'd expect Force India (due to randomness) or Virgin (due to relatively poor organisation) to be doing.

Title: Re: Wrong tyres add to Williams woes
Post by: Scott on September 09, 2011, 09:16:10 PM

Euros aren't worth that much these days...  ;)

Title: Re: Wrong tyres add to Williams woes
Post by: Alianora La Canta on September 09, 2011, 09:43:11 PM

They're worth 86p each, which is quite a bit. Might still be chicken feed to the F1 team, but Williams will be more embarassed because such a trivial mistake happened at all.