Oliver Bearman has been hit with a 10-place grid penalty for this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix after overtaking Carlos Sainz below purple flag situations throughout second observe.
The Haas System 1 rookie overtook the Williams driver at La Rascasse after the session was red-flagged early on for Oscar Piastri’s crash at Sainte Dedicate.
In line with an FIA report, Haas knowledgeable Bearman “fairly late” and “simply earlier than the overtake occurred”, however video footage confirmed a lightweight panel instantly in entrance of him on the time.
“The dashboard additionally indicated the purple flag properly earlier than the overtake occurred,” the report added.
“The rules require the drivers to ‘instantly’ cut back pace and proceed slowly again to their respective pits. The identical rules warning drivers of the truth that in a purple flag scenario, ‘overtaking is forbidden’ and that drivers ought to ‘keep in mind that race and repair autos could also be on the monitor’.
“The motive force claimed that he noticed the purple flags however determined to not decelerate abruptly as a result of he felt that slowing down abruptly would have been extra harmful and that what he did was a safer method of dealing with the scenario.
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“We disagreed along with his resolution to not take steps to decelerate sufficiently to keep away from overtaking one other automotive and as an alternative continuing slowly again to the pits, as required.
“The entire function of requiring drivers to decelerate instantly is for security – they won’t know what’s in entrance of them or the explanation for the purple flag being proven. That is notably so in a monitor like Monaco.
“Within the circumstances, there is no such thing as a mitigating issue for the truth that he overtook a automotive below a purple flag and we subsequently imposed a penalty of a ten grid place drop for the Race and a pair of penalty factors.”
It comes after Bearman had completed fifteenth in each Friday observe classes, inflicting the 20-year-old to confess it was a “robust” day however was optimistic for the remainder of the weekend.
“We did a very good step with the automotive from FP1 to FP2 and I used to be fairly pleased with the steadiness,” Bearman advised F1TV.
“We tried to brief run the medium and see how its efficiency was throughout one lap and it appeared fairly strong.
“We have to see the place we stand as a result of I did my efficiency laps on medium, which was fairly totally different to a number of the others. I believe there’s some good indicators from right this moment and let’s hope to construct on them and enhance tomorrow.”
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