Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix after each of their McLaren automobiles failed post-race technical checks on Sunday
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been inducted into an unlucky System One membership after the McLaren pair have been disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix. The Brit had initially crossed the end line behind Max Verstappen on Sunday, whereas the Aussie star secured a fourth-place end.
Nevertheless, a technical infringement led to the drivers being hit with a harsh disqualification. After each their motors failed post-race technical inspections, the FIA found that the thickness of the planks underneath each McLaren automobiles was beneath the 9mm required by the top of a race.
The findings indicated that the automobiles had an illegally low experience peak, leading to them being disqualified from the twenty second race of the 2025 season. The penalty not solely put Verstappen on equal factors with Piastri with simply three races remaining.
The four-time reigning champion is now merely 24 factors behind championship chief Norris, organising what guarantees to be a nail-biting conclusion to the season.
Sunday’s disqualification marked the primary for Norris and Piastri of their F1 careers, as they now be part of six different drivers on the F1 grid who’ve suffered the identical destiny. Their double disqualification wasn’t even the primary this yr, with that doubtful distinction going to Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc.
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The Ferrari duo have been booted out of the Chinese language Grand Prix again in March, together with Alpine’s Pierre Gasly. Hamilton discovered himself in scorching water when the rearmost skid of his automotive was discovered to be thinner than the 9mm thickness allowed by the foundations, leading to his P6 end being worn out.
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Leclerc, who crossed the road in P5 in China, added to Ferrari’s woes after his automotive was found to be underneath the minimal weight required. As for Gasly, the Frenchman discovered himself in the identical boat as Leclerc, with each their automobiles tipping the scales at 799kg after the race, falling wanting the minimal weight of 800kg following a post-race check-up.
Earlier than Nico Hulkenberg’s first podium at Silverstone, the German skilled his first disqualification after 15 years in F1 on the Bahrain Grand Prix. The 38-year-old echoed Hamilton’s Chinese language Grand Prix mishap as his Sauber was discovered to have extreme skid block put on.
As if disqualifications weren’t powerful sufficient to swallow, that may have been the case for George Russell in final yr’s Belgian Grand Prix. The Brit clinched the race with then-Mercedes team-mate Hamilton ending second, securing a surprising one-two end for the Silver Arrows.
Nevertheless, Russell’s elation rapidly was a nightmare when his automotive was discovered to be 1.5kg underweight, resulting in his disqualification and selling Hamilton to race winner. Esteban Ocon’s solely disqualification occurred seven years in the past throughout the Frenchman’s stint with Power India.
Now racing for Alpine, the 29-year-old driver secured a powerful eighth-place end in Austin. Nevertheless, a post-race inspection revealed that his automotive had exceeded the utmost gasoline mass move restrict of 100kg/hr throughout the race’s opening lap.
