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

Bad news for Ollie Bearman and Haas aheadꦜ of Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix

Ollie Bearman
Ollie Bearman

Ollie B🐬earman has been hit with a 10-place grid penalty for Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix.

Bearman was found guilty of overtaking 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz under red flag conditions.

The incident occurred after168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Isack Hadjar clattered the barriers, resulting in a red flag.

Th𝕴e 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 prohibited, Bearman has been handed a hefty 1🐬0-place grid penalty.

The Monaco Grand Prix is notoriously difficult to overtake, mak🙈ing Bearman’s chalꦕlenge of a strong race on Sunday incredibly challenging.

Based on practice, Bearman will likely start the race from the b💟ack of the grid.

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

Why was 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ollie Bearman penalised?

While the stewards acknowledged that Bearman was informed “rather late” by his race engineer, a light panel directly in front of him showed the session was r🐷ed-flaggedꦐ.

F1’s rules require drivers to “immediately” reduce their speed and return back to the pit lane🌌.

Drivers are strictly “forbidden” from overta💯king because of potentially other vehicles being on track.

The stewards noted: “The driver claimed that he saw the red flags but decided 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 another car and instead proceeding slowly back to the♊ pits, as required.

“The whole pu🍨rpose of requiring drivers to slow down immediately is for safety – they will n♕ot 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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