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

Bad ne💞ws for Ollie Bearman and Haas ahead of S🌸unday's Monaco Grand Prix

Ollie Bearman
Ollie Bearman

Ollie Bea✤rman 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.

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

With overtaking under red flags prohibited, Bearm🌳an has bee🍃n handed a hefty 10-place grid penalty.

The Monaco Grand Prix is notoriously diffꦑicult to overtake, making Bearman’s challenge of a strong race on Sunday incredibly challenging.

Based on practice, Bearman will likely start t🃏he race from the back 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” byꦐ his race engineer, a light panel directly in front of him showed the session was red-flagged.

F1’s rules require drive☂rs to “immediately” reduce th♋eir speed and return back to the pit lane.

Drivers are strictly “💖forbidden” from overtaking because of potentially other vehi🃏cles 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 wo❀uld 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 do💖wn sufficiently to avoid overtaking another car and instead proceeding slowly back to the pits, as 🤪required.

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

“In the circ𓆉umstances, there is no ꧙mitigating 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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