Cash-strapped Hispania has been fined $5000 (R35 000) at the inaugural South Korean GP after it managed the unusual feat of releasing a car with a tyre warmer still attached.
Also reprimanding the team, stewards said two team personnel had breached the sporting regulations by entering the pit exit lane to recover the warmer shed by Japanese driver Sakon Yamamoto's car.
Yamamoto's involvement in the afternoon practice session was subsequently cut short when he spun, brushed the wall and stalled.
The team did not mention either incident in its post-practice report, with Yamamoto preferring instead to highlight that he had managed to use both tyre compounds in preparation for Sunday's race. - Reuters