Hamilton turned in an impressive recovery drive from eighth on the grid to finish third behind Mercedes teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: George Russell and Ferrari’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Carlos Sainz in Saturday’s sprint race in Sao Paulo. 

With Sainz set to drop five positions for an engine change, Mercedes will lock out the front row of the grid for the first time thi🌺s season for Sunday’s g෴rand prix. 

• Russell wins thrillin﷽g sprint, Max Verstappen slips to fourth
• Hamilton would be happy with Mercedes 1-2 ‘either way’

H☂owever, 💫there was some doubt over Hamilton’s third-place finish when it was announced that he - along with McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo and Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu - would be investigated after the sprint for an incident relating to the start procedure. 

All three infringements were loo🎃ked at and cleared by the Sao Paulo stewards, meaning no pen🌃alties were handed out. 

"The Stewards reviewed the start sequence, as it was observed that multiple cars were potentially out of their grid box in violation of Article 8.6.1.a) of the FIA International Sporting Code, being either to the left or right of the grid box,"ꦦ an FIA statement read. 

"Having reviewed all available angles of video, and making measurements on the grid, the Stewards noted that the grid boxes were slightly smaller than usual and that the drivers’ visibility makes compliance extremely diffi🐷cult and that no driver was in a position that gained any advantage. 

"The Stewards are therefore satisfi🌺ed to tak𒊎e no further action."

Speaking be𒆙fore the investigation, Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said he felt the onboard footage showed Hamilton had stayed within his grid box. 

“It may be linked to positioning in the box, but we’ve got the onboard, and it looks like we’re very, very conservative in where we p🥃ositioned it in terms of the line,” Shovlin told Sky Sports after qualifying.

“Whether it was a sensor issue, I don’t know. From the images 𝕴we’ve seen, there doesn’t look to be any hint that we were outside of that box.”

Relief for Gasly but Stroll penalised 

Pierre Gasly avoided moving closer to triggering an automatic one-race ban following a⛄ stewards’ investigation. 

The Frenchman was issued with just a formal warning for driving unnecessarilyඣ slowly during a reconnaissance lap before the start of Satur🎃day’s sprint race. 

Gasly is on the verge of becoming the168澳洲幸运5🐓官方开奖结果历史: first F1 driver to 💞receive a race ban for acc🥂umulating 12 penalty points over a 12-month period, but the AlphaTauri driver ✤remains on 10. 

Meanwhile, Lance Stroll was handed a 10-second time penalty and three penalty points on hi🐠s licence for forcing Aston Martin teammate Sebastian Vettel off the road in a “dangerous manner”. 

The Canadian now has a total of eight penalty points on 🌼his licence for the current 12-mont🏅h period. 

Yuki Tsunoda w🐼ill start from the pitlane after parts of his car were changed in parꦜc ferme.