Austrian Grand Prix
Verstappen investigation, Austrian GP 2024no further action for driving too slowly
OutcomeNo further action
Decision · Published
- Driver
- Verstappen
- What happened
- Allegedly driving unnecessarily slowly.
- Offence
- Driving unnecessarily slowly - every ruling & the going rate →
Going rate across 3 rulings in 2024: +1 grid ×1 · No action ×1 · Warning ×1
- Regulation cited
- Art. 33.4
- Stewards' reasoning
- The Stewards reviewed video and timing evidence. Despite the fact that Verstappen exited the pits slowly and made up a gap of approx. 14 seconds to the car in front of him, the Stewards determine that in this case no other car was directly affected by this in their attempts to set a lap time. In addition to that, it is noted that other cars were making similar gaps on track at this point in tim… 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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