Chinese Grand Prix
Infringement
Sargeant penalty, Chinese GP 2024 - 10s for illegal overtake
Outcome10 second time penalty. 2 penalty points (total of 8 for the 12 month period) - safety-car infringement
Published
An official FIA stewards' document from the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix. It carries 2 penalty points toward a 12-point race ban.
- Driver
- Sargeant
- What happened
- Sargeant overtaking Hülkenberg under Safety Car conditions at 15:22.
- What this outcome means
- 10-second penalty explained →
- Offence
- Illegal overtake - every ruling & the going rate →Going rate across 6 rulings: +10s ×2 · +5s ×2 · +3 grid ×1
- Regulation cited
- Art. 55.8
- Penalty points
- +2points (FIA-stated total: 8)
- Stewards' reasoning
- The Stewards reviewed positioning/marshalling system data, video, timing, telemetry, team radio and in-car video evidence and determined that Sargeant overtook Hülkenberg while the race was under Safety Car. Hülkenberg was coming out of the pits and Sargeant was approaching on the main straight. At the SC2 line, Hülkenberg was ahead of Sargeant. Sargeant then overtook Hülkenberg and did not giv…
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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