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Originally Posted by broadrun96
Wow, delusional much there? The rules so actually specifically address the issue at hand. It's not a tough decision and the regs actually say in plain clear wording the result of the violation in lap time is immaterial, the violation itself is worthy of penalty and the penalty is most always exclusion from the session for technical violations.
On track action is NOT in the tech regs so bark up another tree with those complaints.
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Setting aside the rather nasty and wholly unnecessary personal insult.
A technical breach would almost exclusively occur across a session or would affect a result across a session. In Ricciardo’s case the technical violation can be pinned down to a single instance shown as a spike on the telemetry. The deletion of the lap on which it occurred would negate any possible effect or benefit that it could have caused.
Regarding the application of the DQ penalty that you allege should automatically apply may I point you in the direction of:
The 30 second penalties incurred by Alfa Romeo at the 2019 German GP for clutch irregularities.
The 5000 Euro fine for Mercedes carrying fuel at too low a temperature in Lewis’ car in Practice 1 here at Singapore – not exclusion from results of the session.
2016 Hulkenberg in the Force India penalized one grid place for the use of tyres during qualification that should have been handed back before qualifying.
So it would certainly seem there is a strong precedent of penalties other than a DQ being used in instances of technical irregularities.