Toyota’s Jarno Trulli has been handed a €10,000 fine for driving the wrong way around during the opening practice session of the Singapore Grand Prix.
The Italian spun coming out of the final corner, missing the pit lane entrance.
Rather than continuing down the start-finish straight, he drove a short distance in the wrong direction in order to get into the pits.
Stewards decided he had breached of Article 30.2 of the 2008 FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations, and Appendix L Chapter 4 Article 4d of the International Sporting Code.
The former states “drivers are strictly forbidden to drive their car in the opposite direction to the race unless this is absolutely necessary in order to move the car from a dangerous position,” while the latter says “except in cases of force majeure (accepted as such by the Stewards of the meeting), the crossing, in any direction, of the line separating the deceleration zone and the track is prohibited.”
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