Alpine tried to remove some penalty points from Pierre Gasly's license and reduce the chances of him getting a race ban in F1. However, its attempts were thwarted by 'opportunism' from rival teams.
Alpine has revealed that an attempt to get some of Pierre Gasly’s licence penalty points wiped was derailed by opportunism from its Formula 1 rivals.Gasly has been at the centre of a focus on F1’s driver penalty points system after he totted up 10 points – just two shy of the limit before a race ban kicks in – last year.
While that is good news for drivers with a lot of points, as it minimises the risk of innocent mistakes pushing them over the limit for a race ban, there remains some unease about the situation. It is understood that Gasly’s stance is because he and his team feel that the change of approach to what offences earn points should be applied to those who have already fallen foul of them on their licences.team boss Otmar Szafnauer is clear that, if the FIA has accepted that handing out penalty points for track limits is wrong, then those drivers who have been punished for them should have those points removed.
It has emerged that Szafnauer brought the matter up in the most recent meeting of the F1 Commission and proposed the idea of drivers having points earned for minor offences wiped off their licences.
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