29/04/2007
NEWS STORY
A1 Team Ireland and A1 Team Switzerland have been excluded from this afternoon's Feature race results for pitting outside the mandatory pitstop window.
A1GP rules state that all cars make their mandatory pitstops between laps eight and 20 of the race, however both teams were judged to have called their drivers in after the window had closed.
The penalty for that offence is exclusion, hence the throwing out of both teams from the results. Switzerland lost 12th and Ireland 13th.
The pair had effectively had their pitstop strategies ruined anyway by having not pitted before the safety car came out on the 13th lap.
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