British Grand Prix
Offence
Giovinazzi penalty, British GP 2020 - 5s for safety car
Outcome5 Second Time Penalty (1 penalty point imposed, total of 2 points in the 12 month period) - safety-car infringement
Published
An official FIA stewards' document from the 2020 British Grand Prix. It carries 1 penalty point toward a 12-point race ban.
- Driver
- Giovinazzi
- What happened
- Failure to slow under the safety car
- What this outcome means
- 5-second penalty explained →
- Offence
- Safety-car infringement - every ruling & the going rate →Going rate across 51 rulings: No action ×19 · Warning ×17 · +5s ×7
- Penalty points
- +1point (FIA-stated total: 2)
- Stewards' reasoning
- The Stewards reviewed telemetry evidence and determined that Giovinazzi was below the minimum required time set by the FIA ECU.
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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