6 December 2020
Sordo penalised after tyre error
Two minute penalty relegates Spaniard to fourth
Hyundai’s Dani Sordo lost his podium finish at Rally Guanajuato Mexico on Sunday evening after being handed a two-minute penalty for using one more tyre than allowed during the four-day event.
The penalty relegated the Spaniard from third to fourth and promoted M-Sport’s Mads Østberg to third. Just 1.5sec split the pair in the revised classification.
Rally stewards received a report from the FIA Technical Delegate stating that Sordo used 29 tyres, one more than authorised.
Team principal Michel Nandan and team manager Alain Penasse told stewards that due to a communication error three new and two used tyres were assigned to Sordo’s i20 in a tyre fitting zone instead of three used and two new units.
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