World News – AU – Renault warned by FIA after tire confusion Ricciardo F1

All teams were forced to use the first 30 minutes of the afternoon session to try out Pirelli’s experimental builds

One driver on each team was assigned a single set and was asked to do a long run, while the other driver had two sets to use one after the other â ???? with one representing the baseline and the other a new build In Renault’s case, Ricciardo was the driver who had two sets to try

However, Renault inadvertently reversed the left fronts of the two sets, so Ricciardo did both races with three tires from one set and one from the other. The error was recorded by the FIA ​​system and reported to the stewards as the rules clearly state that teams are not allowed to mix different types of tires

Renault admitted the mistake and escaped with a warning as the race involved development tires, and nothing was won

The stewards noted: â ???? It was agreed that the team used the wrong left front tire from a set of different specifications, which is an offense with no apparent sporting advantage for the team, as the set in question was a development setâ ??? ?

The bad news for the team and for Pirelli was that by rolling out the mixed sets neither side learned anything meaningful about next year’s tires for Ricciardo’s car

Pirelli F1 boss Mario Isola admitted it was easier to go wrong with the development tires because they are not color coded

– Unfortunately it was not very useful because they made a mistake, – he said at the request of Motorsportcom Knowing the specification of Renault, we have to exclude these two sets from our analysis

– It happens, because the prototypes are black with no labels on the side Obviously with the racing tires you have different colors, and you immediately recognize if you have three tires which are white and one tire which is yellow

â ???? With the prototypes, they only have the set number on the sidewall, not the color, so that was a real mistake It is clear that it is difficult to draw any conclusions from two sets that were mixed up, but that’s what it isâ ????

Daniel Ricciardo, Renault F1 Team, Formula 1, Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, Pirelli, Grand Prix of Portugal