SILVERSTONE, Great Britain -- The stewards at the British Grand Prix decided not to take any action against Nico Rosberg after an alleged breach of the Sporting Regulations during qualifying.
Rosberg was summoned to the stewards to explain an unusually slow lap during Q1 as he cooled his tyres between runs. The FIA sets a maximum time between the two safety car lines -- positioned after the pit lane exit and before the pit lane entrance -- to try to prevent accidents caused by differences in speed between drivers on hot laps and drivers on in- or out-laps.
Rosberg was clocked doing a 2:26.444 following his first flying lap of Q1, which, by comparison, was 28 seconds slower than Lewis Hamilton's cool-down lap at the same part of qualifying. However, when it was pointed out that Rosberg was not an in-lap to the pits at the time, the stewards deemed the lap to be within the regulations.