Japanese Grand Prix
Offence
Kubica penalty, Japanese GP 2019 - 5-place grid penalty for gearbox
OutcomeDrop of 5 grid positions
Published
An official FIA stewards' document from the 2019 Japanese Grand Prix.
- Driver
- Kubica
- What happened
- The gearbox has been changed.
- What this outcome means
- Grid penalty explained →
- Stewards' reasoning
- The gearbox of Kubica has been changed before 6 consecutive events have expired. This Penalty does not change the fact that the competitor is required to start the race from the pit lane due to changing the survival cell (document 25).
Source: FIA stewards' decision document (PDF, fia.com). The Time Penalty links to the official document and, where it can, summarises the outcome in a sentence; it does not host or alter the document.
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