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Bottas warning, Spanish GP 2026ignored race director
OutcomeDriver: Warning
Infringement · Published
- Driver
- Bottas
- What happened
- The driver failed to follow the Race Director’s Competition
- Regulation cited
- Art. 12.2.1.i
- Stewards' reasoning
- The Stewards reviewed video and in-car video evidence. Bottas slowed down before Turn 5 to make way for an incoming car. When approaching the corner, he accelerated to make way for another incoming car, left the track while being to the right of the yellow line, but re-joined the track without staying to the right of the bollard in the runoff area. The Stewards acknowledge the efforts of the driver to manage traffic, but determine that it would have been possible to follow the instructions given in the Race Director’s Competition
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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