Bojan Vrbnjak
In FIA race director, Michael Massi, gave an insight into the infringement proceedings during this year 's novelty, sprinter race. The FIA will tackle the sprint race about the same as a regular GP race, he adds Masi.
"If we find an incident involving two racers, we can use the penalty of adding places to the starting line for the next Grand Prix race,”The race director explained in an interview for colleagues from Motorsport.com. "Thus, city mark-up penalties and time penalties for violation will also apply to the sprint race.”The rules of Fr. technical infringements but they will be different, he says Masi, who doesn't want to say much about it yet.
"The remaining regulations on powertrains and so on, which will first have to be approved by the Formula 1 Commission and the WMSC, but will be applied differently and will be more race-focused,”He concluded Masi, as he knows that the entire leadership of the race can meet with in this new situation initial difficulties. "After the first event, we will review this internally and see what worked, what didn’t work, and any other areas that need to be improved."
