The disqualification of an on-the-road winner is a uncommon occasion in Formulation 1. It occurred for the sixth time on Sunday within the 1,a hundred and fifteenth spherical of the world championship.
George Russell was the unfortunate driver to lose their victory. As on two of the opposite earlier events this was for falling beneath the minimal weight restrict, in his case by 1.5 kilograms.
Like Russell, Alain Prost misplaced a win when his automotive was discovered to be underweight. He fell 2kg shy after operating out of gasoline as he crossed the ending line on the finish of the 1985 San Marino Grand Prix. Three years earlier, Prost inherited victory on the Brazilian Grand Prix when unique winner Nelson Piquet and second-placed Keke Rosberg have been additionally disqualified for failing the minimal weight verify.
Russell’s disqualification got here 30 years to the race since the final time a driver was disqualified after successful. Michael Schumacher misplaced his Belgian Grand Prix win in 1994 when his automotive’s ground plank failed a post-race thickness verify, below a rule launched two races earlier.
The primary driver to be disqualified after successful a race was James Hunt, who misplaced victory within the 1976 British Grand Prix for switching to his spare automotive earlier than the race was restarted. Hunt had additionally been disqualified after successful the Spanish Grand Prix earlier that 12 months, as his McLaren’s wing was judged to be too broad, however was later reinstated.
The one different driver to be disqualified after successful was Ayrton Senna’s controversial penalty within the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix. He was disqualified for rejoining the monitor through an escape highway after tangling with workforce mate Alain Prost.
The next 12 months Senna inherited victory within the Canadian Grand Prix from his workforce mate Gerhard Berger, who took the chequered flag first however obtained a one-minute penalty for leaping the beginning. Till final weekend, that was the one event a driver inherited a win from his workforce mate after they have been penalised.
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Lewis Hamilton can now lay declare to the identical. Not solely that, he’s additionally inherited a win from a rival on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve resulting from a time penalty, in his case for Sebastian Vettel in 2019. He additionally beforehand misplaced a Belgian Grand Prix victory resulting from a penalty, in 2008.
Russell’s disqualification meant that as an alternative of him successful the race by 0.526 seconds from his workforce mate, the closest successful margin this 12 months, Hamilton received it from Oscar Piastri by 0.647s, which remains to be the closest successful margin this 12 months.
Hamilton recorded the one hundred and fifth grand prix win of his profession and have become the primary driver this 12 months to win multiple spherical aside from Max Verstappen.
The Crimson Bull driver ought to have had pole place final weekend, however a 10-place grid penalty left him eleventh. For the second 12 months in a row at this race, Charles Leclerc inherited pole place and Sergio Perez was promoted to the entrance row. This was Leclerc’s twenty fifth pole place, placing him on his personal in twelfth place within the all-time rating. Perez set the quickest lap of the race, the twelfth of his profession, giving him as many as Alberto Ascari, Jack Brabham, Rene Arnoux and Juan Pablo Montoya.
For the fourth race in a row, Verstappen didn’t win. That is now his longest win-less streak since 2020, when he went 11 rounds with no victory. He additionally failed to succeed in the rostrum for the primary time in consecutive races because the 2021 British and Hungarian grands prix.
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