No changes will be made this year to the penalty points system with regard to the violation of track limits. The FIA has informed the drivers of this. This FIA system has been criticised for a number of weeks now. If a driver commits an offence, he can get penalty points. As soon as a driver has twelve of them, he is excluded for one race. At the Russia Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was given two penalty points for making test starts where he was not allowed to. This was later reversed after criticism from various figures in the sport. Read more Update | FIA chances strict 'track limits' after taking away 125 laptimes Masi replies to Szafnauer: 'The circumstances were completely different'...
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