McLaren complained concerning the severity of Lando Norris’s for failing to sluggish for double waved yellow flags in the course of the Qatar Grand Prix.
Norris was given a 10-second stop-go penalty, one of many harshest sanctions obtainable to the stewards, for the incident on lap 30 of yesterday’s race. When imposed, the penalty requires a driver to enter this pits inside three laps and sit of their pit field for 10 seconds.
McLaren crew principal Andrea Stella claimed Norris’s punishment was disproportionate to the offence. “Within the software of the penalty, I believe we have now misplaced any sense of proportion and any sense of specificity,” he advised Sky after yesterday’s race.
Stella was notably infuriated that Norris was penalised for failing to sluggish for yellow flags which had been subsequently withdrawn regardless of the very fact the hazard they had been displayed for – a bit of particles on the beginning/end straight – had not been cleared.
“Can we glance particularly, on the infringement, the extent of hazard related to the state of affairs – and, in actual fact, the yellow flag was eliminated – after which choose, utilizing these type of parts, proportion and specificity. Slightly than having a look at any type of rule e book, most likely stuffed with mud on high of it, after which apply it with none sense of important strategy.
“So from this viewpoint, I believe there’s a chance to do higher from the FIA.”
Nonetheless Norris’s penalty is in step with the small variety of previous instances of drivers failing to sluggish for double waved yellow flags throughout races. Solely three instances have occured prior to now 14 seasons.
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Kimi Raikkonen was given a 10-second stop-go penalty for failing to sluggish for double waved yellow flags in the course of the 2017 Belgian Grand Prix. 4 years later two drivers acquired the identical sanction for a similar offence in the course of the Austrian Grand Prix: Nikita Mazepin and Nicholas Latifi. In all three instances the drivers had been additionally given three penalty factors on their licence, as Norris was in the present day.
There have been many different cases of drivers failing to sluggish for double waved yellow flags, which is normally punished with a five-place grid drop, as Verstappen acquired at this race in 2021.
Norris didn’t take challenge along with his penalty, describing it as “honest”.
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