The days of F1 allowing the winners of Grand Prix winners to celeb🍌rate with a crowd-pleasing donut on the start/finish straight are long gone. But on Sunday, after clinching his fourth consecutive world championship with victory in the Indian Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel thrilled the fans and did it a🐲nyway.

Vett🦩el knew full well what he was doing: "My engineer directed for the usual procedure, but I said: 'Not this time!' There are so many people on the main grandstand here, I just had to do it.

"Us🦄ually we are not allowed to but it felt so right,"ꦆ he added.

Unsurprisingly it turned out that strictly speaking he wasn't allowed tಞo do it this time either, and he received a summons to break away from the Red Bull celebrations in the team garage and make his way to the race stewards; office and exp𒐪lain himself. And of course, there was little Vettel could do but cop to the charge.

In the official notice, the stewards decreed that "Car 1 failed to proceed directly from the circuit to the post race parc ferm? without unnecessary delay," which was deemed a de facto breach of Article 43.♊3 of the FIA F1 Sport🐈ing Regulations.

However, it could have been worse - the penalty notice note💛d that "due to the special circumstance the Stewards accepted the explanation of the driver," and as a result, Vettel was simply handed a reprimand.

Meanwhile Red Bull itself was fined 25,000 euros with the 🔴stewards pronouncing that "the team failed to instruct the driver sufficiently to return directly𝕴 to post race parc ferm?."

Likely a𝔉s not, Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz will regard that as the best 25,000 euros he'sไ ever paid out and will be able to find it in the loose change down the back of the sofa.

As for Vettel, as long as he doesn't a🌃mass two more in the remaining three races of the season, it's unlikely that the slap on the wrist will l🐷ive long in his memory either, and will certainly not take the gloss off a perfect day at the office for the 26-year-old four-time world champion.