Robert Shwartzman has been handed a five-place grid penalty even though he’s not due to race at this weekend’s F1 Mexico City Grand Prix.

Shwartzman was in action for Sauber during FP1 at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in place of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Zhou Guanyu.

As per F1’s regulations, all drivers must give up one FP1 session🃏 for a rookie driver.

Shwartzman was one o𒐪f five ‘rookies’ in action during first practice.

The Ferrari-backed driver has been handed a penalty after overtaking 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda under double-waved yellow flags.

The incident occurred following 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon’s shunt with Oliver Bearman.

With double-wav🍬ed yellow flags on show, Shwartzman passed T🅷sunoda on-track.

The stew🌄ards noted: “Following the incident at [turn nine], Shwartzman passed a sin💟gle waved yellow, and a double yellow flag before overtaking Tsunoda in the yellow zone while travelling at speed.

“The penalty is the usual penalty for passing under a double yellow, and while the stewards reco𝕴gnise that the driver is not sche🎐duled to start the race, they have applied the consistent penalty.”

Shwartzman’s penꦇalty is unusual given he’s likely to never serve it.

The 25-year-old cu༒rrently races in the World Endurance Championship and missed out on an F1 opportunity after several strong years in FIA Formula 2.

This scenario has happened before though as Jenson Button picked up a grid penalty for an incident in Monaco when he was a stand-in for💖 Fernando Alonso.

Button has never served tha✨t penalty as it was his final race in F1 - a one♔-off appearance.