Penalties in Motorsport

[Milkyway]

I enjoy all forms of Motorsport, F1 & BTCC being the main two, but not adverse to a bit of motorbike racing either.

Over the years, the penalties being issued for various ‘infringements’ has gotten out of hand... detriment to the sport.
I don’t enjoy the ‘Snitching’ whilst racing, with drivers & teams just trying to gain an advantage.

I see Football is upping their game with the yellow card system.
Basically, a player calling for a yellow card...will receive one themselves.
Red card: has varying length of bans...depending on severity.

Could a similar system work in Motorsport... not bans as such, but varying levels of time penalties.

Eg:
A yellow warning issued during a race: +1 second.
After ‘X’ amount of yellows, a red will be issued:
( Maybe on a rolling basis... could include grid drops)

Edited by Milkyway on Tuesday 8th August 09:53

[GlobalRacer]

Big difference in motorsport is that, in many cases, the system relies on people protesting others for breaking the rules.

It's not snitching to show the clerk a video of a car overtaking under yellow or reporting a driver for running a 2.3 engine in a 2.0 class as just two examples.

Anyway in football pointing out that someone has committed a foul is very different to telling the referee what he "must" do.