Ryan Wood
Ott Tanak (EST) and Martin Jarveoja (EST) of team Hyundai Shell Mobis are racing during World Rally Championship Monte-Carlo.
As a result, he was retired from the rally and later informed that the stewards had imposed a one-event ban, suspended for 12 months.
“My first feeling was that it’s a pretty harsh one,” he told DirtFish. “I would say to take me out or retire me from the rally was already quite harsh. To get the suspension after the rally, I don’t know, for sure, it’s a hard one.
“To drive [with] a flat tire at 50km/h, OK, open road, but still pretty carefully – and doing nothing crazy – you get a suspension for that?”
He questioned why others weren’t penalised as heavily for what he believes were more dangerous acts.
“I don’t know, other people driving with helmets open on a stage, which can be fatal immediately [in the event of a crash].
“A human life is worth €400, compared what we have done?”
Rally winner Sebastien Ogier and Hyundai co-drivers Carlos del Barrio and Martijn Wydaeghe were hit with €400 fines for driving with open helmets.
Source: motorsportweek.com