Sebastien Ogier, Thierry Neuville, Dani Sordo and Martin Prokop have all been hit with a reprimand and fined 1000 Euros after going slightly off route on Friday in SS2 of Rally Argentina. The drivers all made a wrong turn around 8.8 kilometres from the start of the 51.99km Agua de Oro-Ascochinga test. The detour added an extra 150 metres to the test, as “the distance between boxes 6 and 7 is 90 metres, whilst the distance of the loop which the cars concerned took is approximately 240 metres”. A statement from the stewards on Saturday accepted the mistakes were a result of errors in the recce with the pace-notes. However they still ruled that it was an “infringement” of the rules...
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