Ollie Bearman handed hefty grid penalty for red flag offence in Monaco GP practice

Bad news for Ollie Bea🍰rman and Haas ahead of Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix

Ollie Bearman
Ollie Bearman

Ollie Bearman𒅌 has been hit with a 10-place🅷 grid penalty for Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix.

Bearman was found guilty of overtaking 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz under red flag conditions.

The incident occurred after168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Isack Hadjar clattered the barriers, resulting in a red flag.

The initial investigation stemmed from Bearman overtaking a slow-moving Williams in the final part of the lap♐ after the red flag had been put out.

With overtaking under red flags ꩲprohibited, Bearman has been handed a hefty 10-place grid pe🌄nalty.

The Monaco Grand Prix is notoriously di꧂fficult to overtake, making Bear🎶man’s challenge of a strong race on Sunday incredibly challenging.

Based on practice, Bearman wi⛎ll likely start the race from t🌸he back of the grid.

The Ferrari junior was only 15th-fastest in FP2.

Why was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ollie Bearman penalised?

While the stewards acknowledged that Bearman was informed “rather late” by his rac🅠e engineer, a light panel directly in front of him showed th🅠e session was red-flagged.

F1’s rules require drivers to “immediately” redu𝄹ce their spee♒d and return back to the pit lane.

Drivers are strictly “forbidden” from overtaking🍬 because of pote𓂃ntially other vehicles being on track.

The stewards noted: “The driver claimed that he saw the red flags but de🦩cided not to slow down abruptly because he felt that slowing down abruptly would have been more dangerous and that what he did was a safer way of handling the situation.

“We disagreed with his decision to not take steps to slow down sufficiently to avoid overtaking anot🍷her car and instead proceeding slowly back to the pits, as required.

“The whole purpose of requiring driver𝓀s to slow down immediately is for safety – they will not know what is in front of them or the reason for the red flag being shown. This is particularly so in a track like Monaco.

“In the circumstances, there is no mitigating factor for🌸 the fact that he overtook a car under red flag and we therefore imposed a penalty of a 10 grid place drop for the Race and 2 penalty points.”

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