Sergio Perez and Yuki Tsunoda are below investigation for allegedly driving too slowly throughout dash race qualifying, after the stewards famous 40 potential incidents involving 17 drivers.
Each driver within the discipline bar Fernando Alonso, Esteban Ocon and Nico Hulkenberg have been recognized as having exceeded the utmost time between the 2 Security Automotive strains through the session. The stewards dominated no penalty must be utilized in 38 circumstances, together with one every for Perez and Tsunoda.
Nevertheless the stewards summoned the drivers to reply their questions over one additional incident every. Perez’s investigation considerations his gradual lap earlier than his ultimate try to set a lap time, during which he and Charles Leclerc encountered one another on the observe.
Drivers should not take greater than 100 seconds to go between the second Security Automotive line, on the pit lane exit, and the primary, and the pit lane entrance. Perez’s total tour of the observe previous to his ultimate flying lap took over 144 seconds and was the slowest such lap of the session.
The stewards’ paperwork confirmed Perez and Tsunoda have been cleared of exceeding the time restrict at 20:37:15 and 20:41:46 respectively, and are below investigation for incidents at 20:41 and 20:38 respectively. They’ve been summoned to fulfill the stewards on Saturday earlier than the dash race.
The rule imposing a minimal time on drivers between the Security Automotive strains has been imposed because the second half of final season. The stewards often be aware drivers fail to adjust to it, however normally clear them on the grounds that “the drivers took acceptable actions to not impede different drivers, and the place required slowed down considerably to permit different drivers to go whereas giving these drivers a transparent observe.” This was the case for the 38 incidents cleared throughout immediately’s session.
Drivers famous for driving unnecessarily slowly
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