HRT breaks curfew

The season has barely started when Hispania Racing Team has already missed one of its four ?curfew exemptions? to which the teams are entitled during the championship. During the night from Thursday to Friday, the Spanish team decided to ignore the ban on working on cars for a period of six hours, to be able to run its new F111 for the first time during the second session. on Friday. “Last night,” the FIA ​​said in a press release, “HRT personnel carried out work on the car during the six-hour confinement period which began at 2:30 a.m. on March 25, i.e. 10 a.m. the start of the first session. This is the first of four individual exceptions for HRT and no sanction is taken. » Is it the assembly of new parts received too late? and their adjustment? which forced HRT to take this measure.