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Atom The FIA's recent regulation changes (technically not permitted as it is mid-season and not safety-related, but not a battle the teams chose to fight) include giving 10-place grid drops to any driver getting three reprimands in a season. Article 18.2 says that drivers receiving 3 reprimands in a season will receive a 10-place grid drop at the next race where it is possible to enforce the penalty.
It is unclear whether penalties more severe than reprimands will be counted towards the three. What is known is that being late to the driver's parade or press conference 3 times won't trigger the 10-place grid drop - at least 2 of the reprimands must be for dodgy on-track driving of some description. All grid drops will be in addition to any fines or other penalties deemed appropriate at the time of the incidents.
Counting starts as of the British Grand Prix, so even if a driver had 100 reprimands beforehand (as it feels as if Lewis Hamilton's had) will not be penalised for having a somewhat wild early season.
I intend to log penalties after each race to enable us to figure out who's where along the route to grid drops. Each race, I will list steward's investigations as indicated on the FIA website and on other reputable sites. For each driver who has been subject to such an investigation, I will list how many reprimands (with "procedural" reprimands such as missing the driver parade in brackets), incidents attracting more than reprimands and investigations where no penalty was given. Reprimands are the lowest penalty the FIA can give, so there is no need for a "penalties less than a reprimand" category.
Try not to worry if you see your favourite driver with a long list of "investigations", for I intend to include any incident where they were cited in the investigation. It may be more helpful to think of it as a "trouble magnet" score than a "trouble causer" one. If your driver (or team) does not appear at all, they haven't been involved in anything that has attracted the stewards' attention so far.
Some penalties do not appear to be put onto the FIA website. As far as possible, I will track these too, linking to where I found out the infraction had occurred.
Teams aren't affected by this directly, but I decided to track their penalties too. Just because I felt like it. Also in the "just because I felt like it" category is the steward tracker, giving who's done how many races and where. Both start counting from the British Grand Prix.
Note: all links are to the FIA document unless otherwise indicated. They won't work after the build-up to next race unless you have a password, but I don't know anywhere else that keeps copies of the original documents on the internet.
Stewards this meeting:
Nigel Mansell, Nicholas Deschaux, Lars Osterlind and Dennis Carter.
Steward tracker:
Once this year:
Nigel Mansell, Nicholas Deschaux, Lars Osterlind and Dennis Carter.
Incidents this race:
DRS activation in (wet) FP1 session (document 18)
Regulation(s) cited: None
Involved: Mark Webber and Lewis Hamilton
Verdict: No further action required (possible glitch?)
Unsafe release of Jenson Button in race (document 43)
Regulation(s) cited: Article 23.1 (j), Sporting Regulations
Involved: Jenson Button
Verdict: €5000 fine for McLaren, but no penalty for Button (he parked as soon as practicable, but a badly-attached wheelnut is a badly-attached wheelnut)
Unsafe release of Jenson Button in race (document 44)
Regulation(s) cited: Article 23.1 (j), Sporting Regulations
Involved: Kamui Kobayashi
Verdict: €20000 fine for Sauber, but no penalty for Kobayashi (fine possibly bigger than McLaren's due to Pastor Maldonado being lightly hit and a Force India airgun being broken, but Kamui not deemed to have aggravated the incident)
Collision between Kobayashi and Schumacher (grandprix.com race report)
Regulation(s) cited: None (Article 16 Sporting Regulations implied)
Involved: Kamui Kobayashi and Michael Schumacher
Verdict: 10-second stop/go for Schumacher. No penalty for Kobayashi
Driver penalty tracker:
Mark Webber
Reprimands: 0
Penalties exceeding reprimand: 0
Investigations: 1 (DRS FP1 - Britain)
Lewis Hamilton
Reprimands: 0
Penalties exceeding reprimand: 0
Investigations: 1 (DRS FP1 - Britain)
Jenson Button
Reprimands: 0
Penalties exceeding reprimand: 0
Investigations: 1 (Unsafe release - Britain)
Michael Schumacher
Reprimands: 0
Penalties exceeding reprimand: 1 (10-second stop/go for collision with Kobayashi - Britain)
Investigations: 0
Kamui Kobayashi
Reprimands: 0
Penalties exceeding reprimand: 0
Investigations: 2 (Unsafe releae & collision with Schumacher - Britain)
Team penalty tracker:
McLaren
Reprimands: 0
Penalties exceeding reprimand: 1 (€5000 fine for unsafe release - Button - Britain)
Investigations: 0
Sauber
Reprimands: 0
Penalties exceeding reprimand: 1 (€20000 fine for unsafe release - Kobayashi - Britain)
Investigations: 0