FIA being biased when giving punishments

[mep]

I am probably opening a can of worms now but on the other side why holding back with these things?
I just found that article which contains an interesting first paragraph.

http://www.motorsport-total.com/f1/news ... 52542.html

Fernando Alonso war im Qualifying in Monaco schnell unterwegs, zumindest in der Boxengasse: Statt der erlaubten 60 km/h fuhr der Ferrari-Pilot 71,3 km/h und bekam dafür eine Geldstrafe in Höhe von 1.000 Euro aufgebrummt. Der Spanier wird es verschmerzen.

Rough translation:
Alonso was caught speeding in the pitlane, instead of driving 60km/h he was driving 71,3km/h.
He received a punishment of 1000 euro.

Quite a severe punishment?
Other drivers have received grid penalties or drive throughs for a much smaller speed difference.

[Tim.Wright]

I've never seen a grid penalty or drive-through applied for an infraction during qulifying

[Bomber_Pilot]

There has never been a grid penalty for speeding during practice. This year they even lowered the penalties from €200 to €100 for each km/h above the limit and the limit has been set at €1000max. Kimi was doing 93.2 km/h during FP2 in Barcelona and also got €1000 fine. Also from this year the drivers don't pay these fines, the team does.

This is from the sporting regulations:
30.12
A speed limit of 60km/h will be imposed in the pit lane during all free practice sessions, this will be raised to 100km/h for the remainder of the Event. However, this limit may be amended by the stewards following a recommendation from the FIA F1 safety delegate.
Any team whose driver exceeds the limit during any practice session will be fined €100 for each km/h above the limit, up to a maximum of €1000.However, in accordance with Article 18.1 the stewards may inflict an additional penalty if they suspect a driver was speeding in order to gain any sort of advantage. During the race the stewards may impose either of the penalties under Article 16.3a) or b) on any driver who exceeds the limit.

16.3
The stewards may impose any one of the penalties below on any driver involved in an Incident:
a) A drive-through penalty. The driver must enter the pit lane and re-join the race without stopping.
b) A ten second time penalty. The driver must enter the pit lane, stop at his pit for at least ten seconds and then re-join the race.

If either of the two penalties above are imposed during the last five laps, or after the end of a race, Article 16.4b) below will not apply and 20 seconds will be added to the elapsed race time of the driver concerned in the case of a) above and 30 seconds in the case of b).

[mep]

hmmm, ok
I thought there was an incident with Kimi in Hungary many years back where he was just 0.5km/h too fast and got a quite hard punishment.
But maybe this was during the race.

[ecapox]

So what was your real goal with starting this thread? To show how the FIA favors Ferrari?

[myurr]

hmmm, ok
I thought there was an incident with Kimi in Hungary many years back where he was just 0.5km/h too fast and got a quite hard punishment.
But maybe this was during the race.

If you speed during the race then yes you get a severe punishment. I don't think anyone has had more than a fine for speeding outside the race itself.

[mep]

well guys I missed that the rules have been changed, stay relaxed
topic can be deleted, however there are incidents of biased punishments, but lets leave that.