Hyundai WRC star Ott Tanak was given a five-minute penalty and a suspended points deduction by the FIA for accidentally striking an official at last week’s Rally Finland.

Tanak, who won the WRC title in 2019, was nursing an overheating issue after crashing on a stage and colliding with a tree, which caused heavy damage to his i20N Rally 1 car.

FIA issues suspended points deduction after Ott Tanak strikes Rally Finland scrutineer

With the radiator fans broken, Tanak was under instruction by his team – led by former Renault F1 team principal Cyril Abiteboul – to keep his car moving to feed air to his radiators and control temperatures.

The situation reached a head at the stop control of stage seven in Finland, where Tanak struck and injured a scrutineer while tyre checks were taking plac

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