Romain Grosjean has avoided a poten꧃tial disqualification from the Styrian Grand Prix, after his Haas Formuꦚla 1 team breached parc ferme rules following qualifying.

An ERS water pump failure during his outlap in Q1 prevented Grosjean from setting a timed-lap in quali👍fying, as he immediately returned to the Haas garage following a trip through the gravel. As a result, he wa💙s restricted to a back-of-the-grid start for Sunday’s race.

However, Haas broke parc fame rules after qualifying h♔ad finished by continuing to work on the Frenchman’s car late into Saturday evening. The work was conc🗹luded more than three hours after the permitted cut-off period.

The Styrian Grand Prix stewards carried out an investigation on Sunday morning and made it clear that such a rules breach could have led to an exclus🔴ion from the event. But Haas avoided disqualification due to ap🔴proaching the stewards before it started work.

Grosjean is now required to start the race from 💟the pitlane, meaning just 19 ൲drivers will line-up on the Red Bull Ring grid.

"In general, a breach of Parc𝓀 Ferme regulations could lead to the driver being disqualified from the event,” a stewards statement read.

“In this particular case the Stewards accept that there clearly are mitigating circumstances as [the] team would not have been able to run the car in the race without breaking the🐼 regulations and they approached ๊the Stewards before the start of the relevant time period.

"In this connection is it pointed out that the penalty applied𝓀 is not to be seen as a precedent for future infringements."