The FIA will amend the regulations that regulate the infractions of the pilots on the track, increasing from three to five the necessary reprimands to generate a sanction of 10 positions on the grid.
One of the most permissive measures of the sports regulations of the FIA it is the one that determines that the pilots can receive up to three reprimands in a season before being really sanctioned.
This type of warning by the marshals has been widely used in recent years to penalize infractions that, in their opinion, did not deserve an effective penalty.
It is intended to prevent this regulation from ruining a hypothetical dispute for the title
However, as reported Auto Motor und Sport, in 2022 this rule will be modified. But not to become more strict, quite the opposite, since the reprimands necessary to impart an automatic sanction of 10 grid positions It will go from three to five.
Not only that, but also four of those five reprimands must be related to a driving violation, that is, for misconduct on the trackso that the penalty can be applied.
let them compete
This modification of the sports regulations is part of the context of a trend that was agreed to be established in the Formula 1which aims to be more permissive with the drivers to promote greater competitiveness on the track.
Furthermore, it is a consequence of increase in the number of Grand Prixwhich if the pandemic allows it will be 23 in 2022, a record number that exceeds the 22 of last season.
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In this way, the FIA and the teams intend to prevent this regulation from being ruin a hypothetical dispute for the title world in the last races.
2021 data
Last season, 11 of the 20 drivers on the grid received at least one reprimand for their actions on the track, three of them reaching two warnings and staying just one from the effective sanction: Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen and Esteban Ocon.
Regarding the accumulated sanction points, which currently cannot exceed 12 in 12 months to avoid a suspension race, yuki tsunoda He is the one who adds the most with eight, for the seven of Sergio Pérez and Max Verstappen, all of them pilots from the orbit of Red Bull.