Carlos Sainz Jnr was penalised twice for infringements throughout at present’s qualifying session.
The stewards fined the Ferrari driver €25,000 (£21,900), half of which is suspended, for crossing the observe on foot after he crashed at flip 19 throughout Q3. The stewards famous Sainz had not obtained permission to cross the observe.
“The rules are express that this isn’t permitted and is a probably very harmful scenario,” they said. “This was bolstered by the race director in a earlier drivers’ assembly.”
Sainz advised the stewards he thought it was secure to cross the observe as he did so below crimson flag situations after the pit lane entrance.
“Nevertheless, there have been nonetheless 5 vehicles circulating and it was potential that one might make a mistake and never enter the pit lane, or might have entered the pit lane quicker than Sainz thought,” the stewards said.
“Additional, there have been probably different autos getting into the observe that the motive force had no information of.”
Sainz’s nice matches that which Lewis Hamilton obtained for the same infringement within the Qatar Grand Prix final 12 months.
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“The stewards in contrast this to different penalties which have been given just lately, which got when the observe was in race situations, however below Security Automotive and think about that it is a considerably much less extreme case, due to the crimson flag.
“Additional, the motive force’s concept that as a result of he was past the pit entry is one other mitigating circumstance. However in mild of the express regulation bolstered in prior drivers’ conferences the stewards order the nice which is decrease than earlier penalties and order half to be suspended for the rest of the 2024 season, in mild of the mitigating circumstances.”
The Ferrari driver crashed as he started his first flying lap in Q1. He was overtaken by Oscar Piastri moments earlier, which appeared to disrupt his preparation to start out a timed lap.
“It was a really unusual one,” he advised the official F1 channel. “I clearly overestimated the grip that I’d get from a really chilly tyre.
“I needed to do plenty of backing off within the final sector to let some vehicles by. Launching a lap right here, you by no means wish to give away any lap time. After I was launching the lap, I went by way of the bump in [turn 18] and I simply had zero grip in comparison with some other lap of the weekend I had a giant second.
“At one level I believed I might put it aside, however then it snapped on me and it was a really unlucky, very dangerous accident.”
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Sainz was additionally giving an official warning for an incident in Q1 when he rejoined the circuit by way of an incorrect route when he went off at flip two.
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