F1 championship chief Andrea Kimi Antonelli obtained a five-second post-race time penalty for a number of monitor restrict violations regardless of retiring from the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.
Antonelli was cautioned repeatedly for breaching monitor limits throughout Sunday’s 66-lap race in Barcelona, and obtained a number of warnings from Mercedes race engineer Peter Bono Bonnington.
Though it was not instantly clear, Antonelli was discovered responsible of no fewer than three monitor restrict violations when cornering Mercedes teammate George Russell throughout the Grand Prix.
Antonelli overtakes Russell at Barcelona
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The penalty was solely confirmed after the race, and Antonelli was given a five-second time penalty. This didn’t have an effect on the consequence, because the 19-year-old Italian ultimately retired.
In imposing the penalty, the stewards revealed that one of many violations had not been detected throughout the race. Consequently, Antonelli was given a black and white warning flag for his fourth offense as an alternative of his third.
“The Stewards have thought-about the video proof,” they mentioned of their verdict.
“In the course of the race, the automotive went off the monitor 4 instances with out justifiable motive. The stewards confirmed that the motive force obtained a black and white flag after the fourth violation, reasonably than after the third, because the earlier single violation was solely found late within the race.”
“Nonetheless, based mostly on present rules and driving requirements pointers, this doesn’t exempt drivers from complying with the rules.”
Stewards urged F1’s governing physique, the FIA, to “evaluation present procedures and pointers as quickly as attainable”, acknowledging that “there could also be ambiguities” within the pious pointers.
It’s understood that McLaren grew to become conscious of the breach and issued a warning.
Antonelli jumps from Mercedes in Barcelona
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Lando Norris’ race engineer Will Joseph advised the reigning world champion that Antonelli exceeded the monitor limits greater than 3 times throughout the race and would obtain a penalty.
That was although no data was being communicated from race management on the time.
Antonelli’s championship benefit over Lewis Hamilton, who took his first win for Ferrari, has been decreased to 41 factors. Hamilton beat Russell by practically 20 seconds to earn his well-known first win in purple.
“After all it hurts for me, but it surely’s not like I used to be going to win right this moment’s race anyway,” Antonelli mentioned, reflecting on the setback.
