has been handed a five-second penalty for crossing the pitlane exit line on the Components 1 Miami Grand Prix however retains his fifth place as a result of an excellent greater penalty for .
Verstappen, who had dropped down the order after spinning in the beginning, made an early pitstop on lap 6, capitalising on an early security automotive that had come out for the separate accidents of and .
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However in doing so, the four-time world champion crossed the white line on pit exit, which was in the end investigated after the race so stewards might overview secondary video footage.
New digital camera angles confirmed Verstappen had crossed the road, netting him a five-second penalty.
“When the incident occurred, there was restricted video proof to make a transparent resolution on whether or not an infringement had occurred,” the stewards defined. “We due to this fact determined to analyze the incident after the race, to see if we might get higher video proof of the incident within the meantime, maybe from different angles. We had been ready to take action. The brand new angles did present extra views of the pit exit line and the incident in query.
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“The driving force of Automotive 3 defined that he was driving out of the pit exit and rejoined the race underneath full course yellow. The Stewards decided that the skin of the entrance left-hand tyre did cross the skin of the stable white pit exit line in violation of Appendix L, Chapter IV Article 6 c) of the Worldwide Sporting Code. Given the character of the infraction the Stewards elected to impose a penalty of 5 seconds.”
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Verstappen solely simply nicked fifth off Ferrari’s Leclerc popping out of the ultimate nook however will retain fifth as a result of Leclerc was handed an even bigger, 20-second penalty for slicing a number of corners on the ultimate lap as he suffered automotive injury on his .
Leclerc was demoted to eighth behind team-mate and driver .
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