51) All classifications and results of practice
and the race, as well as all decisions issued
by the officials, will be posted on the official
notice board.
52) Any decision or communication concerning
a particular competitor must be given to
him within twenty five minutes of such decision
and receipt must be acknowledged.
INCIDENTS
53) Incident means any occurrence or series
of occurrences involving one or more drivers,
or any action by any driver, which is reported
to the stewards by the race director (or
noted by the stewards and referred to the
race director for investigation) which :
- necessitated the stopping of a race under
Article 155;
- constituted a breach of these Sporting
Regulations or the Code;
- caused a false start by one or more cars;
- caused a collision;
- forced a driver off the track;
- illegitimately prevented a legitimate overtaking
manoeuvre by a driver;
- illegitimately impeded another driver during
overtaking.
54)
(a) It shall be at the discretion of the
stewards to decide, upon a report or a request
by the race director, if a driver or drivers
involved in an incident shall be penalised.
b) If an incident is under investigation
by the stewards, a message informing all
Teams of this will be displayed on the timing
monitors.
c) If a driver is involved in a collision
or Incident (see Article 53), and has been
informed of this by the stewards no later
than 30 minutes after the race has finished,
he must not leave the circuit without their
consent.
55) The stewards may impose a 10 second time
penalty on any driver involved in an Incident.
However, should such penalty be imposed during
the last five laps, or after the end of a
race, Article 56b) below will not apply and
25 seconds will be added to the elapsed race
time of the driver concerned.
56) Should the stewards decide to impose
a time penalty, the following procedure will
be followed :
a) The stewards will give written notification
of the time penalty which has been imposed
to an official of the team concerned and
will ensure that this information is also
displayed on the timing monitors.
b) From the time the steward's decision is
notified on the timing monitors the relevant
driver may cover no more than three complete
laps before entering the pits and proceeding
to his pit where he shall remain for the
period of the time penalty.