Mexican Grand Prix
Offence
Verstappen penalty, Mexican GP 2019 - 3-place grid penalty for yellow flags
OutcomeDrop of 3 grid positions 2 penalty points imposed (total of 4 in the 12 month period) - yellow flags
Published
An official FIA stewards' document from the 2019 Mexican Grand Prix. It carries 2 penalty points toward a 12-point race ban.
- Driver
- Verstappen
- What happened
- Failure to slow for single waved yellow flag in turn 17
- What this outcome means
- Grid penalty explained →
- Offence
- Yellow-flag infringement - every ruling & the going rate →Going rate across 66 rulings: Deleted lap ×23 · No action ×23 · Reprimand ×5
- Regulation cited
- Art. 2.4.5.1
- Penalty points
- +2points (FIA-stated total: 4)
- Stewards' reasoning
- The Stewards heard from the driver of Verstappen (Max Verstappen) and the team representative and have reviewed video, audio and telemetry evidences which clearly showed that the driver attempted to set a meaningful lap time and failed to reduce his speed in the relevant marshalling sector, contrary to the Appendix H, Article 2.4.5.1 b) as well as, the requirements set out in the item 9.2 of th…
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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