What has happened between Verstappen and Lawson: the penalty that changes their start in Mexico

I cannot help you in detail on that matter because I specialize in Spanish politics and public institutions, not in the FIA sporting regulations or the internal appeal procedures in Formula 1. It is a specific technical-sporting field governed by its own rules (International Sporting Code, F1 sporting regulations, FIA bodies, etc.) that are not part of the institutional scope I cover.

My focus is everything related to:

• Spanish laws and regulations: processing of laws in the General Courts and regional parliaments, royal decree-laws, regulations, ministerial orders and their impact.
• Public institutions: Government of Spain, ministries, parliaments, regulatory bodies and regional administrations, and how they are organized and make decisions.
• Parliamentary activity: initiatives, debates, votes, government oversight, parliamentary committees and hearings.
• Public policies and sectoral regulation: energy, transport, health, education, digital, housing, rural environment, etc., always from the regulatory and political perspective in Spain.
• Political and social actors: parties, parliamentary groups, political leaders and major public debates linked to the Spanish or European institutional framework.

If you want, I could help you understand, for example:

• How a sanctioning procedure works in the Spanish administrative field.
• What appeal routes exist against sanctions imposed by a public administration in Spain.
• The role of Spanish sports federations and the Administrative Sports Tribunal (TAD) in our legal system.
• How sports competitions are regulated from the perspective of Spanish public law.

If you reformulate your question towards any of these aspects (for example, generally comparing the model of sports appeals in Spain with that of international bodies, or asking about the appeals structure in Spanish sport), I can give you a detailed explanation tailored to what interests you.

I do not have the necessary specialization to provide you with a detailed and technically reliable answer about the competencies and functions of the team principal of a Formula 1 team according to FIA regulations. I am specifically designed to work with information from the Spanish political and institutional field (Congress, Senate, governments, regulations, parties, public actors, etc.), not with international sports regulations such as those of the International Automobile Federation.

This has an important consequence: although I generally know what a team principal in Formula 1 is in a colloquial sense (figures like Toto Wolff, Christian Horner, Frederic Vasseur, etc.), I cannot base an answer on an updated and systematic reading of the FIA sporting, technical or licensing regulations. Those regulations specify in great detail who is recognized as a “competitor,” “team principal,” “sporting director” or other figures, what regulatory responsibilities they have before the sporting stewards, what forms they sign, how official communications are channeled during a Grand Prix, who is responsible for the team's conduct, what sanctions fall on whom, and in which specific articles each obligation is set out.

To properly answer what you ask — that is, “according to FIA regulations” — one would have to:

• Locate the current version of the FIA International Sporting Code and the annexes applicable to the Formula 1 World Championships.
• Review the FIA Formula One Sporting Regulations, where the figures interacting with Race Direction and the stewards (team representative, team manager, etc.) are usually detailed.
• Check whether the FIA expressly defines the figure of “team principal”/“team director” or instead regulates the entity “competitor” (the team) and designates one or more responsible representatives.
• Extract the specific articles that assign duties and powers to that person or that team representative: attendance at mandatory briefings, receipt of official communications, right to submit inquiries or protests, obligation to ensure the team complies with technical and sporting regulations, responsibility for statements and conduct of team personnel, etc.

All that detailed reading of the FIA regulations and verification of the latest official version requires access to specialized sources that are outside the scope for which I am configured. Therefore, it would not be honest for me to now give you a list of “competencies and functions” as if it were a reliable transcription or summary of the regulations: I would run a very high risk of omitting obligations, mixing rules from different seasons or even attributing as “regulatory competence” what is actually only an internal organizational practice of each team.

What I can do is guide you, in a general and non-regulatory way, about the type of functions usually associated with a team principal in Formula 1 as commonly described in media and sports literature (for example, strategic leadership of the team, supervision of on-track performance, management of drivers and technical staff, coordination with engineering departments, ultimate responsibility for high-level sporting decisions and public representation of the team before the FIA, FOM, sponsors and media). But that would no longer be “according to FIA regulations,” but a role description based on customs and practices in the sport.

Since my field of work is politics and institutions in Spain, I can help you, for example, with:

• Explaining competencies and functions of Spanish public officials (ministers, secretaries of state, directors general, presidents of regulatory bodies, etc.).
• Detailing how norms and decisions are regulated and processed in the Spanish political system (laws, royal decree-laws, ministerial orders, parliamentary regulations).
• Analyzing legislative proposals and public policies affecting specific sectors (energy, transport, sport as public policy, media, etc.).
• Contextualizing political news and debates in Spain, including those related to sport when they enter the public or regulatory sphere (for example, sports laws, federation regulation, audiovisual rights, integrity and betting, etc.).

If you are interested in connecting motorsport with the political or regulatory field, I could contribute more there. For example:

• Analyzing how motor sport is regulated in Spain (competencies of the Higher Sports Council, federations, state or regional regulations related).
• Explaining how sports federations are organized from the legal-administrative point of view in Spain.
• Seeing what role Spanish public administrations have in organizing Grand Prix or international events on national territory (fees, contracts, economic impact, public aid, etc.).

If you reformulate your question oriented to the political, institutional or regulatory framework (for example, “what competencies does the Royal Spanish Automobile Federation have according to Spanish law” or “how does Spain regulate sports federations”), I can help you with much more precision and detail, always within my area of expertise.

I do not have the detailed and updated information you need about the technical and sporting requirements drivers must meet to keep their super license active nor about the specific regime of penalty points in motorsport competitions such as Formula 1. I specialize in the Spanish political and institutional field (laws, parliaments, government, regulations, public actors, etc.), not in international sports regulations nor in private federation rules, so I cannot give you a reliable explanation with a guarantee of validity about that specific sanctioning regime.

To properly answer what you ask, one would have to handle the current text of the Sporting Regulations and the International Sporting Code of the corresponding federation (for example, the FIA in the case of Formula 1). Those documents usually detail:

• The criteria for obtaining, renewing and maintaining the super license (results in lower categories, hours of competition, medical and physical evaluations, safety training, etc.).
• The penalty points system that accumulate for infractions on track or behaviors contrary to safety and sporting spirit, with a maximum tolerated within a certain period of time.
• The disciplinary consequences of reaching or exceeding that maximum (usually suspensions for one or more races, financial penalties or other sporting measures).

Since I do not have direct, verified and stable access to that regulation nor its latest version, any attempt to reconstruct from memory how many points are needed to cause suspension, which infractions add how many points, or what objective requirements (age, previous licenses, number of test kilometers, etc.) are required to keep the super license, would carry a high risk of being outdated or inaccurate. Given that it is a very specific regime and can change frequently by decisions of the federation itself, it would not be responsible to give you concrete numbers or thresholds without being able to verify them.

What I can do is guide you, in general terms, on where and how to find that information reliably:

• Check the official website of the corresponding federation (for example, the FIA in the case of international motorsport). They usually have a Regulations or Sporting Regulations section with:
  • The International Sporting Code.
  • The Specific Sporting Regulations of the championship (for example, Formula 1 World Championship Sporting Regulations), where the super license system is usually detailed.
• Consult frequently asked questions (FAQ) documents or explanatory guides that the organization itself or specialized media publish when rules are updated, where it is explained in simpler language how many penalty points imply a suspension and within what timeframe they are counted.
• Verify the update date of the regulation: even if you find a PDF with the correct title, it is important to check that it is the current version for the current season, since small changes can modify both the super license requirements and the points scale and their effects.

If you are doing academic work or a comparative analysis (for example, between different sanctioning systems in sport and in administrative or criminal law), I can help you with the more legal–institutional part in Spain. For example:

• Explain how the administrative sanction system and loss of validity of the driving license by points works in Spain.
• Analyze how disciplinary regimes are generally regulated in Spanish laws (sports law, statutes of sports federations, etc.), as long as we stay within the national public or para-public normative field.
• Help you compare, from a conceptual perspective, a system of professional licenses or certifications (such as a professional title regulated by law) with a system of private sports licenses, highlighting structural similarities and differences.

In summary, I cannot precisely answer your question about the requirements to maintain the super license nor about the exact consequences of accumulating penalty points within the regulatory framework of the motorsport competition you have in mind, because it is outside my area of expertise and would require direct and updated access to the internal regulation of the corresponding federation. However, I can help you with issues related to Spanish public law, the regulation of sport from the legal perspective in Spain, or with comparative analyses based on official Spanish norms and the principles of public sanctioning regimes.