Incidents
Before going straight to the incidents verdicts take into account that there has been some rule changes this year regarding the penalty system and it may seem that penalties are harsher than previous years.
This year with the introduction of the Safety Rating value every driver gets 0.25 SR for aclean race (2 Races per Weekend).
That means that if a driver has a penalty of 1.5 penalty points he will be able to recover those penalty points doing 6 clean races (3 Race Weekends) while the previous years the driver had to do 5 consecutive clean races (5 Weekends) in order to “erase” his penalty points.
Incident #1
Driver(s) Involved Daniel Kiss, Jonny Simon
Lap/Replay Time R1 / L1 / 0:10
Protest Description Simon is initially ahead of Kiss. However Kiss maintains excessive apex speed and is now alongside Simon. Kiss does not take a tighter line into the corner and has no regard to leave room for Simon forcing him off the track and resulting in his eventual retirement from the race, Kiss continues unharmed.
Verdict See RD #1.
Incident #2
Driver(s) Involved Jorrick Boshove, Thomas Satherley, Borja García
Lap/Replay Time R2 / L1/ 0:04
Protest Description Boshove and Satherley make a sandwich with García. Borja is side by side with Satherley and when he is overtaking them, both close the room.
Verdict See RD #2.
Incident #3
Driver(s) Involved Guillermo Prieto, Giordano Valeriano
Lap/Replay Time Starting Grid (Sprint Race
Protest Description An accident happened in front and all the drivers back up to avoid damage the car, but Valeriano decided to keep accelerating and crashes me from behind breaking my rear wing.
Verdict Valeriano had no time to react (same verdict as some drivers in race 1 & 2, main causes were RD #1 and RD #2). No further action.
Race Director Incidents
First lap incidents.
RD #1
Race 1
Description Daniel Kiss pushes Jonny Simon off track, Simon comes back in unsafe manner. This causes Torres to try and take evasive action and hits Sebastian Dunkel. Torres has room to keep his line.
Verdict
Daniel Kiss: -1.00 Penalty Point, 5 Grid Penalty, Suzuka Feature
Jonny Simon: -2.00 Penalty Points, 10 Grid Penalty, Suzuka Feature
Alvaro Torres: -0.50 Penalty Points, Official Warning
RD #2
Race 2
Description Boshove, Garcia and Satherley squeeze each other, causing massive wreck before T1. All 3 drivers made bad decisions.
Verdict
Jorrick Boshove: -1.00 Penalty Point, 5 Grid Penalty, Suzuka Sprint
Borja Garcia: -1.00 Penalty Point, 5 Grid Penalty, Suzuka Sprint
Thomas Satherley: -1.00 Penalty Point, 5 Grid Penalty, Suzuka Sprint
RD #3 - Qualifying Cuts (Back of Grid, R11 at Suzuka, Feature Race)
Q1
Peter Helmbro
Nick Rowland
Q2
Martin Hodas