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Ferrari breach highlighted 'strange rule' - Villeneuve

Dec.3 Jacques Villeneuve says he doesn't understand the rule that cost Ferrari EUR 50,000 in Abu Dhabi. The Italian team was reportedly lucky to escape disqualification after a discrepancy was found between the fuel in Charles Leclerc's tank, and the amount that was actually declared to the FIA by Ferrari. "It's one of those parc ferme rules that I don't understand," 1997 world champion Villeneuve told the Dutch publication Formule 1. "They didn't have the amount of fuel on board that they said they had - who cares? Why can't you just have as much fuel as you want?" Indeed, Ferrari did not breach the allowed 110kg fuel limit - only the rule about properly declaring the...
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