Penalty for Aiello

A serious penalty for Laurent Aiello: Not only has the Opel driver to pay €5,000, but he will be also be penalised by a second being added to his qualifying time. The stewards imposed these penalties as Aiello had contested the first test session with two front wheel brake temperature measuring probes that didn’t meet the regulations.

And in spite of the request of a technical delegate, the sensors weren’t removed before the session was over. At the Norisring, the one-second penalty is particularly hard, as the entire field uses to be very close together, here. In the second test session, the quickest and the slowest drivers were split by just seven tenths of a second.