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Originally Posted by wnut
How did they avoid payment?
If the FIA enforced its laws impartially they may have moral authority.
Legal authority would likewise be enforceable if they had not ignored team orders prior to this event.
There is also a little matter of double jeopardy as the stewards have already fined Ferrari and Ferrari has accepted the penaltly for the infraction. This is now the FIA double dipping for the same offence.
Sorry its the FIA that is running an illegal witch hunt.
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Two points:
1. It is not illegal.
2. It is in fact a part of the original penalty and that is created by the FIA judicial code, so it is not double dipping.
The FIA judicial code has limits of authority granted to the stewards of a meeting. In general the stewards cannot suspend a driver or a team. That privilege is granted to the World Motor Sport Council who will hear the case in September because the stewards of the meeting referred the case to them.
It is not a new charge but part of the original penalty. The maximum penalty that can be imposed by the stewards is $50,000USD so the $100,000 was the maximum that could be imposed on the team (2 cars).
This also indicates that both cars/drivers were implicated in the decision.
In addition matters of bringing the sport into disrepute can only be decided by the WMSC, hence the referral upstairs.