The FIA stewards have defined the 10-second penalty for Oscar Piastri as they blamed the McLaren driver for inflicting a three-car collision through the Method 1 Brazilian Grand Prix with Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Charles Leclerc.
On a lap six security automotive restart, fourth-placed Piastri went down the within of Antonelli and Leclerc to make it three-wide into Flip 1, as he aimed to clear the pair and begin chasing chief Lando Norris. As Piastri locked up his front-left tyre and he slid into Antonelli, which left the Italian sandwiched in between the McLaren and Leclerc’s Ferrari, and the contact with Piastri punted Antonelli into the aspect of Leclerc.
The Ferrari driver got here off worst by dropping his front-left tyre and struggling terminal suspension injury, whereas each Piastri and Antonelli escaped with out injury.
Upon evaluate the FIA’s race stewards felt Piastri was totally responsible for the incident and handed him a 10-second penalty to be taken at his first pitstop, which finally dropped him from second to fifth. Piastri additionally acquired two penalty factors on his licence.
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Of their verdict the stewards judged Piastri wasn’t far sufficient alongside Antonelli to be claiming the nook, they usually additionally famous the Australian locked up as he tried to again out of the transfer.
“On the security automotive restart on Lap 6, Automotive 81 (Oscar Piastri) tried to overhaul Automotive 12 (Kimi Antonelli) on the within of Flip 1,” the assertion learn. “In doing so, PIA didn’t set up the required overlap previous to and on the apex, as his entrance axle was not alongside the mirror of Automotive 12, as outlined within the Driving Normal Tips for overtaking on the within of a nook.
“PIA locked the brakes as he tried to keep away from contact by slowing, however was unable to take action and made contact with ANT. This contact precipitated ANT to make secondary contact with Automotive 16 (Charles Leclerc), who was positioned on the surface and was compelled to retire from the race consequently.
“PIA was due to this fact wholly chargeable for the collision. A ten-second time penalty and a couple of penalty factors are thought-about applicable and in step with current precedents.”
By dropping to fifth on the end, Piastri noticed his hole to McLaren team-mate and title rival Norris develop to 24 factors with three rounds remaining, as Norris claimed his seventh grand prix win of 2025.
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