Brazilian GP: Hamilton escapes penalty on wet tire violation
Lewis Hamilton has been fined 15.000 euros by stewards at the Brazilian Grand Prix and had the offending wet weather tire set confiscated after an inquiry at Interlagos on Friday’s Free practice session. The Briton, as well as Jenson Button and Takuma Sato, received the penalty for breaching Article 25.3 of the Sporting Regulations by using more than one set of wet tires in the rain hit morning practice session.
Hamilton, Button and Sato they can now head into Saturday practice and qualifying minus any grid position penalty. Honda hasn’t commented the fact, while Super Aguri Honda Sporting Director Graham Taylor admitted the team had ‘made a mistake’. Over at McLaren and Team Principal Ron Dennis had stated the error “did not provide any performance advantage”.
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