The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix F1 stewards have explained why 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris escaped punishment for jumping the start.

Onboard footage from Norris’ car clearly showed the Briton jolting forward in his grid spot, and quickly stopping again, before the lights went out to signal th✃e start of the race.

The incident was immediately reported over team radio by Mercedes driver 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, wꦓho started alongside his fellow countryman in seventh.

It was investigated by the stewards, who ultimately cleared Norris b♔ecause the FIA’s standardised data transponder had not been set off.

"The stewards reviewed positioning/marshalling system data, video and determined that the vi🐻deo appeared to show that car 4 moved before the start signal was given," the stewards said.

"However, the FIA approved and supplܫied transponder fitted on the car did 🦄not indicate a jump start.

"Article 48.1 a) of the Formula One Sporting Regulations states clearly that the judgment of whether or not there was a jump start is to be m🌜ade in accordance with the transponder, which did not show a jump start. In the circumstances, we took no further action.”

Norris admitted he “didn’t know what happened” because it “happen𝔍ed so quickly”.

"I jusওt went a little bit and then tried stopping again, and then went again. But overall, I lost. I didn't gain anything from it,” he told Sky.

Sky F1 pundit Anthony Davidson analysed the incident after the race and revealed that McLaren would have successfully overturned any penalty via appeal had punishment been handed🔯 out.

“There will probably be lots of q🧸uestions regarding this potential jump start from Lando Norris. It was something that we all saw and something that he definitely felt,” Davidson explained.

“The lights 🍌are on, the car clearly moves, he stops and then he gets goingဣ again. So why didn’t he get a penalty?

“Well, on the circuit, on each grid box there is a sensor. Now it appears that the sꦏensor wasn’t working. It didn’t detect the car moving. It’s an automate🐷d system and it didn’t detect that the car had moved.

“So, the stewards, although they can see that it is a potential jump start, or was a jump start, the human eye can detect it,♔ the sensor didn’t actually pick it up. So that’s the first bit of luck.

“Second, there’s a bit of a loophole in the regulation. If they ൲were given a penal𒁏ty, it turns out that if the team appealed it, they would win the appeal because the sensor can’t detect the car moving.

“So that’𒊎s why, Lando Norris, we believe didn’t get a penalty for this actual jump s🥀tart. Computer said no.”

It is not the first ti♓me a driver has been let off for a jump start.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valtteri Bottas escaped a penalty for a jump start at the 2020 Hungarian Grand Prix, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sebastian Vettel was also cleared in Japan a year earlier.