The stewards have issued a five-place grid penalty to Valtteri Bottas which he might by no means serve.
The Sauber driver collected two penalties in the course of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix for collisions with completely different drivers. His second, with Kevin Magnussen, led to his retirement.
The stewards held Bottas accountable for the collision and handed him a five-place grid penalty for his subsequent race. “Automobile 77 [Bottas] was on the within of automobile 20 [Magnussen] on the method to show six, misjudged his braking considerably and collided with automobile 20 which was coming into the nook on the common racing line,” they dominated.
“As automobile 77 retired from the race, the stewards decide {that a} grid drop is warranted which is the equal of a drive-through penalty and three penalty factors are warranted as a result of important misjudgement of the motive force.”
As Bottas was in his remaining race for Sauber and has no race contract for 2025, it stays to be seen whether or not his penalty will ever be utilized.
“It was my dangerous,” he admitted after the race. “I used to be defending with previous tyres and I attempted to brake as late as I might however I simply couldn’t cease the automobile.”
Bottas’ race started to go awry on the primary lap when he tangled with Sergio Perez. The stewards additionally dominated he was solely accountable for that collision, saying Bottas: “tried to overhaul automobile 11 [Perez] on the within into flip six, however ran over the within kerb and hit the rear left wheel of automobile 11.”
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The stewards gave Bottas two penalty factors for the Perez collision, which means he went from none to a complete of 5 in his remaining race as a grand prix driver for the foreseeable future.
“It’s positively not the best end however this stuff occur,” stated Bottas. “It’s racing, it’s not the primary time. Every little thing simply went improper since lap one.”
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