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Losses position,

20 sec penalty, put back to 12th

That'll teach him, trying to sneak through on the quiet..lol

He should have stayed retired!

Sue

poor old schueeeeeeeeeeeee

Ferrari persuasion again !!!!!!!

overtaking under a SC was it?

The official rules:

Mercedes GP’s Michael Schumacher has been penalised by the Monte Carlo race stewards for his overtaking manoeuvre on Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso in the dying moments of the Monaco Grand Prix.

Schumacher was handed a drive-through penalty, which is converted after the race into a 20-second time penalty, dropping him from sixth to 12th in the results.

Schumacher passed Alonso just as the safety car pulled in at the end of Lap 78. The FIA stewards, which included his old sparring partner Damon Hill, have deemed the German breached Article 40.13 of the Sporting Regulations, which states that “if the race ends whilst the safety car is deployed it will enter the pit lane at the end of the last lap and the cars will take the chequered flag as normal without overtaking."

Mercedes will appeal the stewards' decision and a date for that appeal will be set in due course by the FIA. Schumacher’s demotion moves Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Buemi, who had finished in 11th, into the points in tenth place.


The fact that Damon Hill was the driver representative this week has no bearing on the decision of course...lol

Sue

so why did he a 20 Sec pen