Bottas falls to 15th after time penalty for Stroll clash · F1 · RaceFans

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Valtteri Bottas has been hit with a 5 second post-race time penalty by the stewards for colliding with Lance Stroll late within the Mexican Grand Prix.

The 2 drivers have been preventing over thirteenth place with six laps remaining within the race after they clashed within the Foro Sol stadium part within the ultimate sector.

Bottas was one place forward of Stroll and pressuring Nico Hulkenberg for twelfth place when Stroll lunged to the within of the Alfa Romeo driver into flip 13. As they rounded the nook side-by-side after which approached the precise hand kink of flip 14 that instantly follows, Bottas’ left-front wheel clipped the right-rear of the Aston Martin, sending Stroll right into a spin. Regardless of with the ability to proceed after his spin, Stroll retired quickly afterwards resulting from injury sustained within the conflict.

Each Bottas and Stroll described the contact as a racing incident after the race. Nonetheless, the stewards summoned each drivers for an investigation and decided that Bottas was “predominately” in charge.

“Automotive 18 [Stroll] made a passing manoeuvre on automobile 77 [Bottas] into flip 13, efficiently and in accordance with the driving normal tips,” they dominated. “On the exit of the flip, automobile 77 ran extensive and because it tried to return to the racing line, collided with automobile 18 which was forward of automobile 77.”

The stewards handed Bottas a five-second time penalty for the conflict. The punishment drops Bottas from 14th place on the line forward of group mate Zhou Guanyu to fifteenth, behind his group mate. Bottas was additionally handed two penalty factors on his FIA superlicence for his perceived duty within the conflict.

Earlier than the race had ended, the stewards introduced they might take no additional motion in both of the 2 incidents of contact between Oscar Piastri and Yuki Tsunoda. The 2 have been preventing over seventh place when Tsunoda appeared to clip Piastri’s left-rear nook by means of flip two, earlier than making additional contact at flip one quickly afterwards, when Tsunoda appeared to maneuver into Piastri heading into the nook.

Tsunoda was despatched spinning down the escape highway, dropping in the direction of the very again of the sphere. Nonetheless, after reviewing replay footage whereas the race as ongoing, the stewards believed that neither Tsunoda nor Piastri had been “predominately” in charge for the collision.