In the round-up: Porsche has been successfully appealed a penalty against Andre Lotterer at the Jakarta EPrix, resulting in a change to the classification.
In brief
Lotterer Jakarta penalty rescinded before Marrakech round, changing result
Lotterer has been restored to eighth place in the last round at Jakarta, Indonesia after he was cleared of responsibility for a collision with Nyck de Vries during the early stages of the race.
Stewards initially determined Lotterer collided with De Vries, giving him a puncture which meant he had to pit. Lotterer was given a five-second time penalty and one penalty point against on his e-license, the Formula E equivalent of a super license. The penalty meant that Lotterer was initially recorded as finishing the Jakarta Eprix in 11th.
Originally, the penalty decision simply concluded “the driver of car 36 [Lotterer] caused a collision in [turn eight] with car 17 [de Vries].”
After reviewing video evidence and data ahead of the Marrakech Eprix this weekend, that penalty has been removed. Following an appeal lodged by Porsche, the stewards concluded De Vries had suffered the puncture prior to the impact and that his loss of 10 kilometres per hour relative to the pace Lotterer would have expected him to be at was the cause of the collision.
The updated decision reads “There is a significant and relevant new element which was unavailable to the parties seeking the review at the time of the decision concerned. The stewards cancel the five second time penalty. The stewards withdraw one penalty point (now two in total). The stewards give the proxy to the stewards of the Marrakech Formula E-Prix to sign the amended final results of the Jakarta Formula E-Prix.”
In their revised ruling the stewards deemed “an issue with a flat tyre let the driver of car 17 reduce his speed at the beginning of [turn seven] more than usual and he brakes earlier for T8. The speed was 10kph less between [turn seven] and [eight]. Mr Lotterer was not aware of this and he hit car 17 at the rear. Due to the tyre deflation car 36 had no opportunity to avoid the collision. The stewards consider the case as a normal racing incident.”
As a consequence of the penalty being rescinded, Lotterer rises to eighth in the final classification. That demotes his team mate Pascal Wehrlein to ninth, Sam Bird to tenth and Sebastien Buemi drops out of the points. As a consequence, Wehrlein falls to 10th in the drivers’ championship, although Lotterer, Buemi and…
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