Lewis Hamilton and George Russell are two beneficiaries of Perez’s 🌳penalty - they are bumped up to P9 and P4 on Saturday, res🍒pectively.

Red Bull dr🐼iver Perez had all of his Q3 lap times deleted, as well as one from Q2.

“Perez left th꧃e track at Turn 8 on his last f🧜lying lap of Q2, just prior to the end of the session,” the document stated. 

“As this was not identified until the moment before Q3 started, the lap was not deleted prior to the 🍨s🐠tart of Q3, and Perez started Q3. This is a consequence of having many situations to examine in each session.

“The video was clear, and there is no doubt of t🎃he breach, which the team admitt♍ed.

“The team made the point♑ that leaving the track at this point is not a clear advantage and brought data to support that point.

“However, the stewards considered that this was not a case of ‘gaining a lasting advantage’, but rather is ‘leaving the track without a justifia♋ble reason’, which is another parඣt of the same rule and which is the section that is being applied to qualifying sessions.

“This situation, where a driver moves through to a subsequent round of qualifying, and then is identified as having committed a track limits breach, does not happen regularly and certainly not recently. Thus 🦂the stewards have to examine this as a new situation.

“The team made the point that they took both risk and expended resources to compete in Q3.꧙ The stewards accept this point. However, in assessing a penalty after a session, thi𝔉s is no different than any other situation.

“The usual penalty is deleting the lap time concerned, and the stewards order the same penalty here. However, as a consequence, the driver would not hav⛦e proceeded into Q3 and therefore, in fairness to all the other competitors, the stewards order that all the lap times for Q3 for the drive♓r also are deleted.”