The race stewards at the 6 Hours of Fuji have decided, after reviewing video evidence and telemetry data following the contact between the #47 KCMG Oreca and #28 G-Drive Ligier that:
The driver of the #47 who was defending his position against #28 which was very close to him, braked 37 metres sooner than usual as he considered the damped braking side of the track. This way of defending his position explained the contact between the 2 cars.
The Stewards considered that the driver of car #28 was not responsible for the incident.
Regarding the driver of car #47 the Stewards consider that the fact to brake so early even in defending his position was potentially dangerous for other drivers as for himself.
Therefore the Steward decide to impose a reprimand to Richard Bradley, the driver of car #47.
There is a right to appeal and DSC believes that on the basis of data recovered from the #47 the team are set to do so.
Update: 22:30 local
The following update was issued by the Stewards. Their decision is suspended after the data provided by KCMG apparently showed the #47 was under full throttle at the point of first impact from the #28!
