Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
Gasly warning, Saudi Arabian GP 2021impeding
OutcomeOfficial Warning - impeding
Decision · Published
- Driver
- Gasly
- What happened
- Unnecessarily impeding of Sainz by Gasly in Turn 3.
- Offence
- Impeding - every ruling & the going rate →
Going rate across 14 rulings in 2021: No action ×6 · +3 grid ×3 · Fine ×2
- Stewards' reasoning
- The Stewards heard from the driver of Gasly (Pierre Gasly), the driver of Sainz (Carlos Sainz), team representatives and examined video and team radio evidence. The driver of Gasly stated that he saw Sainz approaching and thought that it would pass on the left, in his view, having left sufficient room to do so. He then saw Sainz move across to the right so moved further left to give it room to… full reasoning ↗
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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