GT2 World Series 2012: Round 4 Protests and Penalties
Please file any protests you wish to file here.
Qualifying Protests Deadline:23:05 UTC Friday, 3 August 2012 Race Protests Deadline: 09:15 UTC Monday, 6 August 2012
Please Provide ALL of the following:
Session of Incident
MPR Timecode -OR- UTC Time of Incident
Lap and Location of Incident
Your Car Number
Other Car(s) Involved
Brief Description of Incident
Session of Incident Race UTC Time of Incident 19:23 Lap and Location of Incident Lap 13, before last corner Your Car Number 93 Other Car(s) Involved 29 Brief Description of Incident Our car started to pass, #29 blocked so harshly that we both had to go on grass. 3 places were lost.
Session of Incident Race
UTC Time of Incident: around 31 minutes race time
Lap and Location of Incident: Lap 18, last turn
Your Car Number 13
Other Car(s) Involved 61
Brief Description of Incident: Our car got bumped into a spin by car #61. We lost several places.
The driver of car 29 (N I K I/N. Đaković) has been excluded from the remainder of the event for multiple avoidable contacts; the car will only be allowed to continue after their pitstop if another driver from the team takes over.
Deko add: There was no reply from anyone to represent Car 29 in IRC after two requests; Car 29 will be assessed the proper penalty for failure to have an IRC representative.
Drive-through for car 61 for an avoidable incident.
Session of Incident: Race
UTC Time of Incident: around 20:55 i think
Lap and Location of Incident: lap 30, turn 1 of last split
Your Car Number: 77
Other Car(s) Involved: 25
Brief Description of Incident: car 25 does an unsafe rejoin into path of car 77, causing car 77 to have to take evasive action
Session of Incident: Race
UTC Time of Incident: 20:46
Lap and Location of Incident: Lap 62, 1st turn of SC3
Your Car Number: 16
Other Car(s) Involved: 77
Brief Description of Incident: 77 pushes 16 on the rear, causing 16 spin, after that 77 hits 16 in the side of a car - causing 16 loosing a lot of seconds.
Session of Incident: Race
UTC Time of Incident: ~20:50
Lap and Location of Incident: Lap 65, T1
Your Car Number: 16
Other Car(s) Involved: 25
Brief Description of Incident: 25 should lift in T1, 16 was in front of 25, 25 caused 16 spin and loosing time.
Session of Incident: Race
UTC Time of Incident: 20:58
Lap and Location of Incident: Lap 71, After 1st split
Your Car Number: 08
Other Car(s) Involved: 06
Brief Description of Incident: #08 is loosing pace because of early contact with #33, then #06 decides to go for an overtake before T4, going outside - closing the door for #08 which almost did caused #08 to crash.
Session of Incident: Race
UTC Time of Incident: 20:33
Lap and Location of Incident: Lap 55, T1
Your Car Number: 08
Other Car(s) Involved: 06
Brief Description of Incident: #06 goes wide in T1, leaving no room for #08. #08 lost pos and quite many seconds.
Session of Incident: Race
UTC Time of Incident: 20:58
Lap and Location of Incident: Lap 71, 1st split
Your Car Number: 08
Other Car(s) Involved: 33
Brief Description of Incident: After mistake from CoRe PRO car, #08 is going inside because there is enough room to do that without contact. Suddenly #33 is changing his line. That's ok, because GenR PRO still has enough room to keep going inside without collision, #33 changes his line for 2nd time and keep closing the door. It was really agressive and unnecessary move. In conclusion driver of #08 lost control of the car, more camber damage, position, time
Session of Incident: Race
MPR timecode: 2:06:40
Lap and Location of Incident: lap 74, second to last corner
Your Car Number: 77
Other Car(s) Involved: 16
Brief Description of Incident: car 77 spun off by car 16, looked like retaliation to me.
Warning to Car 25 for unsafe rejoin from an incident. A small allowance has been granted due to the just burst tyre which may have caused some unexpected behaviour.
The DSQ will cover this incident. Also the DSQ was reviewed and further actions were considered, however we decided to not levy additional penalties, but will continue to monitor this driver.
Car 77 - DT for avoidable incident (issued during race)
Racing incident, no penalty. Car 25 is considered to have sufficient overlap to have rights to that position on the track.
Warning for Car 06, causing an avoidable incident / blocking.
Racing incident, no penalty.
Post-Race DT time penalty (12 seconds added to race time) to Car 33 for excessive blocking.
Car 16 - Stop-Go Penalty converstion (24 seconds added), causing an avoidable incident
Restart tyre warming:
Cars 13, 33, and 77 were found to be continuing to tyre warm at point(s) after the Safety Car In This Lap Signal went out. Tyre warming is to stop at this point. Those three teams are issued a Warning for that conduct.
Car 77 issued a 5-point penalty for unauthorized spectating from on track.
Car 98's qualifying driver did not attend the race. We were notified of that possibility before the race and granted the waiver as allowed by the regulations. Driver J. Meade was having technical difficulties which were not resolved in time. No Penalty.
No 75% rule violations.
Qualifying Skin/Number plate penalties:
Car 42 - Incorrect number plate (was blank) - 4 joins with blank; 4-point deduction
Car 70 - Incorrect number plate (said "Gonzales") - 4 joins with incorrect; 4-point deduction
Car 29 - Incorrect number plate (said "Thunder") - 3 joins with incorrect; 3-point deduction.