Lewis Hamilton has been given a five-place grid penalty for subsequent weekend’s Italian Grand Prix after he didn’t decelerate for yellow flags on his solution to the grid at Zandvoort.
Hamilton, who crashed out of the Dutch Grand Prix by his personal driver error, will begin no greater than sixth for Ferrari’s dwelling occasion at Monza.
The stewards mentioned: “Due to the nature of the track, the Race Director had informed all participants that the last corner before the pit lane would have double yellow flags waved. This was to ensure the safety of those on the grid and in the pit lane. The regulations require that any driver passing through a double waved yellow flag marshalling sector ‘reduce speed significantly…’.
“We regarded by the obtainable telemetry throughout the FIA system. We additionally requested the workforce to offer us with their telemetry information. All of this took a while and this determination was delayed because of this.
“As well as, Article 44.1 requires all drivers protecting multiple reconnaissance lap to drive down the pit entry highway at ‘enormously decreased pace’.
The information confirmed that the motive force had entered the double yellow sector roughly 20kph lower than his pace on the identical level in follow periods, had decreased throttle software within the order of 10% to twenty% and had lifted and braked 70 metres earlier when getting into the pit lane.
“We didn’t contemplate {that a} 20kph discount in pace at a double waved yellow sector constituted lowering pace ‘considerably’. We additionally didn’t contemplate the pace at which the motive force entered the pit entry highway as being at a ‘enormously’ decreased pace.
“The penalty guidelines for such an infringement would ordinarily attract a penalty of 10 grid positions at the next race. However, given that the driver had made an attempt to reduce his speed and to brake earlier, we took that into account as mitigating circumstances and imposed a 5 grid place penalty.
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