F1’s stewards applied mitigating circumstances when handing out 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s controversial penalty🔥 at the Saudi Arabian Gꦫrand Prix.

Verstappen was given a five-second penalty for illegally keeping the lead from168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Oscar Piastri by taking to the run-off at theꦰ first corner after the McLaren driver got a bet✤ter launch at the start of Sunday’s race.

The Red Bull driver, who claimed pole position with another brilliant quali⭕fying lap, ultimately had to settle for second after he served his pe🌌nalty during his pit stop, which dropped him behind Piastri.

Verstappen was left168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: annoyed at the penalty and cut-short his post-race interview, before giving similarly terse🔯 answers in𒅌 the TV pen.

But an official explanation from the stewards in their formal verdict revealed why Verstappen was punished 🔜- and that his penalty could have been twice as severe.

"The Stewards reviewed positioning/marshalling system data, video, timing, telemetry and in-car video evidence and determined that car 81 [Piastri] had its front axle at least alongside the mirror of Car 1 [Verstappen] prior to and at the apex of corner 1 when trying to overtake 🌸Car 1 on theꦰ inside,” they explained.

"In fact, Car 81 was alongside Car 1 at the apex. Based on the Driver’s Standardꦡs Guidelines, it was therefore Car 81’s corner and he was entitled to be given room.

"Car 1 th𝓰en left the track and gained a lasting advantage that was not given back. He stayed in front of Car 81 and sought to build on the advantage.

"Ordinarily, the baseline penalty for leaving th෴e track and gaining a lasting advantage is 10 seconds. However, given that this was lap one and turn one incident, we considered that to be a mitigating circumstance and imposed a 5 second time penalty instead.”

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Verstappen appe🐬ared to suggest that the rules had changed since last year.

“To be honest I think any word towards that is just a waste of🀅 time,” the four-time world champion told Sky Sports F1.

“We talked about it a lot and l🌊ast year, this year, different kind of rules. This is not my problem to be honest.

Later in the race, Raci🎀ng Bulls driver Liam Lawson was handed a 10-second penalty for the same offence as Verstappen at the same corner.

“While he completed💛 the overtake before turn one, the speed that he carried into the turn meant that he could not navigate turn one without leaving the track,” the stewards said.

“He therefore could not successfully overtake car seven [Jack Doohan] without leaving the track and thereby gained a lasting adva💜ntage which he did not give back.

“The standard penalty of 1🌼0♔ seconds was therefore applied.”