F1’s stewards applied mitigating circumstances when handing out 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s conཧtroversial penalty at t♑he Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Verstappen was given a five-second penalty for illegally keeping the lead from168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Oscar Piastri by taking to the run-off at t♌he first corner after the McLaren driver got a better launc𒊎h at the start of Sunday’s race.

The Red Bull driver, who claimed pole posit🥂ion with another brilliant qualifying lap, ultimately had t♍o settle for second after he served his penalty during his pit stop, which dropped him behind Piastri.

Verstappen was left168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: annoyed at the penalty and cut-short his post-race interview, before giving similarly terse answers in the TV penಞ.

But an official explanation from the stewards in their formal verdict revealed 𒆙why Verstappen was punished - and that h🌳is penalty could have been twice as severe.

"The Stewards reviewed positioning/marshalling system data, video, timing, telemetry and in-car vide♏o evidence and determined that car 81 [Piastri] had its front axle at least alongside the mirror of Car 1 [Verstappen] prior to and at the apex of co🥂rner 1 when trying to overtake Car 1 on the inside,” they explained.

"In fact, Car 81 was a𝔍longside Car 1 at 🏅the apex. Based on the Driver’s Standards Guidelines, it was therefore Car 81’s corner and he was entitled to be given room.

"Car 1 then left the track and gained a last💫ing advantage that was not given back. He stayed i👍n front of Car 81 and sought to build on the advantage.

💮"Ordinarily, the baseline pe꧂nalty for leaving the track and gaining a lasting advantage is 10 seconds. However, given that this was lap one and turn one incident, we considered that to be a mitigating circumstance and imposed a 5 second time penalty instead.”

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Verstappen appeared to suggest that the rules had changed 🎀since last year.

“To be honest I think any word towards that is just a waste of time,” the f🙈our-time world champion told Sky Sports F1.

“We talked about it a lot and last year, this year, di💧fferent kind of rules. This is not my pꦜroblem to be honest.

Later in the race, Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson was ꦉhanded a 10-second penalty for the same offence as Verstappen at the same corner.

“While he completed the 🌌overtake before turn one, the speed that he carried into the turn meant that he could not navigate turn one without 🃏leaving the track,” the stewards said.

“He therefore could not successfully overtake car seven [Jack Doohan] without leaving t🀅he track and thereby gained a lasting advantage which he did not give back.

“The standard ൩penalty of 10 seconds was therefor♎e applied.”