Ingall Pitlane

Russell Ingall wants a major overhaul of the penalty system after his Super Cheap Commodore was black flagged twice on the weekend.

Ingall was furious for getting a drive-through penalty after he was deemed to have exceeded the 40kph maximum pit lane speed limit during race two at Barbagallo.

He was even more furious after copping another drive-through in race three for again exceeding the pit lane limit as he believes it robbed him of a top three spot in that race.

“We've got the telemetry to prove that (the decision) was wrong,” he said.

“And how many times has it been proven that the penalty has sometimes been a mistake?

“But once you've got your penalty that's it because the damage is done.”

Ingall said the consequences affected not only himself, but his crew members, team sponsors and thousands of fans.

“It destroys a race not only for the individual driver but the fans who pay an astronomical amount of money these days,” he said.

“At the moment they're (the officials) not the ones that have to go back and explain to their sponsors what happened.

“When you do go back and explain it to them they say 'well that's silly' and then they ask if these decisions are going to happen often and when you say that may be the case they start reconsidering their sponsorship.”

Ingall said even if he had been slightly exceeding the speed limit, the penalty should not be so harsh.

“At the end of the day, if someone's half a kilometre over the pit lane limit but in the middle of a fantastic race with half a dozen cars then who gives a damn?

“He hasn't killed anyone.

“If you were 10ks over or had done some other major infringement well ok then a drive through is acceptable.”

To make Ingall's weekend even worse, stewards slapped a $5000 fine on him for driving in a careless manner by making contact with TeamVodafone's Jamie Whincup during race two.

Ingall, who accepted the fine, said the two drive-throughs were demoralising and called for increased accountability.

The Enforcer's solution to the problem is installing speed advisory signs at intervals along pit lane.

“That way everyone up and down pit lane can see what (speed) you are doing and there's no argument,” Ingall said.

“It would take the human element out of it as well.”