Jarno Trulli retained his points from Monaco


By Andrew Hooper
May 28 2002

 

 

 
Trulli retains points from Monaco
 
At the end of the Monaco Grand Prix, the FIA took an electronic box from car number 14, driven by Jarno Trulli, to verify that it complied with Article 8.2 of the Technical Regulations. The FIA will take this box to the Renault F1 Team factory on Tuesday in order for its compliance to be checked.

Jarno TrulliPat Symonds, Executive Director of Engineering for the Renault F1 Team, commented: "We are quite confident that everything will be clarified when we test the box on Tuesday at the factory. It's a pity this couldn't be done right away at the circuit on Sunday night, and that we have to wait for Tuesday to clear things up."

As Symonds predicted Jarno Trulli’s fourth place at the Monaco Grand Prix was upheld, after the FIA found there to be no irregularities in the control software on the in-question black box from the Italian’s Renault.

Trulli finished fourth at Monaco but with the seals missing there was concern that the unit could have been tampered with. But after an inspection by FIA software specialists on Tuesday they could not find any irregularities. This would mean that Trulli would retain the three points he earned for his fourth placed finish.

 
 
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