Gasly committed two ‘offences’. The other drivers in addition to Russell were McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton and Gasly’s team-mate Franco Colapinto.
Hamilton’s penalty did not affect his second place as Ferrari managed to serve it in a way that did not penalise him in terms of track position during a safety-car period.
Piastri, who has been dropped to fifth by Gasly’s reinstatement, lost three places in serving his penalty.
The verdict published by the stewards into the right of review hearing said that they had questioned the number of penalties for speeding when the third one occurred.
The statement said: “Race control promptly came back to the stewards stating it had made enquiries of the official timekeepers and was told that there was no issue and that the data was therefore accurate.”
The pit-lane speed limit is measured by using a series of timing loops and the time taken to travel a specific distance along the pit lane.
The report said that changes to the pit lane this year had meant that the shortest possible route between the loops was 77 centimetres less than the distance used to calculate the limit.
Five of the six offences were by cars calculated to be doing 0.1km/h over the limit. The other, which was one of Gasly’s, was 0.4km/h over.
As a result, the stewards decided Gasly had not exceeded the pit-lane speed limit.
McLaren and Red Bull have expressed an intention to appeal against the decision.
Source:
www.bbc.com
