Japanese Grand Prix
Sainz penalty, Japanese GP 2025€1,000 fine for pit-lane speeding
OutcomeThe competitor (Atlassian Williams Racing) is fined €1000 - pit-lane speeding
Infringement · Published
- Driver
- Sainz · 2/12 penalty points (rolling 12 months)
- What happened
- Pit Lane Speeding - 93.7 km/h
- Offence
- Pit-lane speeding - every ruling & the going rate →
Going rate across 19 rulings in 2025: Fine ×12 · +5s ×5 · drive-through ×1
- Regulation cited
- Art. 34.7
- Stewards' reasoning
- Sainz exceeded the pit lane speed limit which is set at 80 km/h for this event by 13.7 km/h.
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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