 A brief protest period would open for the teams to formally submit complaints, and if there were no protests, the official results would stand as published.This policy was often a source of controversy, as in earlier years, this made officials apt to document rules infractions as they occurred, but not assess penalties until "after" the race – rather than during the race.Drivers and teams were sometimes not made fully aware of rules infractions until after they were issued a penalty the next morning.