Having pushed Charles Leclerc into the partitions at Sunday’s Dutch Grand Prix, Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli has been sizzling a ten-second penalty earlier than additionally selecting up one other penalty for dashing within the pit lane.
Though Andrea Kimi Antonelli made up 5 locations as a consequence of well-time pit stops and the protection automobile introduced out for Lewis Hamilton’s incident, issues obtained sophisticated when the Italian pitted within the later phases of the race, and Ferrari introduced Leclerc in to counter.
The Monegasque rejoined the monitor forward of the Italian, however the Mercedes driver obtained it unsuitable and tagged the aspect of Leclerc when he tried to ship it up the within into Flip 3.
The incident compelled Leclerc to retire from the motion whereas Antonelli suffered a puncture and was handed a 10-second time penalty earlier than additionally receiving a five-second time penalty for dashing within the pit lane.
As for the tangle with Leclerc, the assertion learn: “The Stewards reviewed video, timing, telemetry, crew radio and in-car video proof.
“Automotive 12 was trying an overtake on the inside of Automotive 16 at Flip 3 andundersteered into the aspect of Automotive 16. This resulted in vital injury to Automotive 16 and its retirement.
“It is clear that Automotive 12 was wholly and predominantly to blame for the collision. We accordingly imposed a 10 second time penalty on Automotive 12.
As for the second incident, Antonelli was caught by having exceeded the pit lane pace restrict by 0.3km/h.
“Automotive 12 exceeded the pit lane pace restrict which is about at 80 km/h for this occasion by 0.3km/h.”
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