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Why Verstappen received 10s penalties in Mexico when Norris received 5s at Austin
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Why Verstappen received 10s penalties in Mexico when Norris received 5s at Austin

By Miles Cooper October 30, 2024
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The penalties dished out to 2024 Formulation 1 title contenders Lando Norris and Max Verstappen within the final two races have been completely different due to a key Austin stewards’ discretion determination.

McLaren driver Norris was hit with a five-second penalty for overtaking Crimson Bull’s Verstappen outdoors monitor limits within the closing levels of the US Grand Prix, whereas every week later in Mexico the Dutchman was handed a 10s sanction for monitor limits go violation, which additionally included pushing his rival off.

This latter incident was the Flip 7 conflict between the pair – seconds after Verstappen had additionally pressured Norris off the monitor at Flip 4 in Mexico Metropolis, for which he was additionally handed a 10s penalty that he later served alongside together with his different sanction in a prolonged pitstop that ruined his race.

The upper degree of Verstappen’s penalty led some observers to surprise if the Dutchman had been handled in a harsher manner, with Crimson Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko even stating “it is a response to all of the incidents that passed off in Austin”.

Nonetheless, FIA sources have confirmed to Motorsport.com that the 10s penalty is the usual degree for such a manoeuvre as Verstappen dedicated in opposition to Norris at Flip 7, when it got here to him leaving the monitor and gaining an enduring benefit after placing in an aggressive overtake.

At Austin, the stewards of that assembly are understood to have determined Norris solely warranted a five-second time addition due to the mitigating circumstances of how Verstappen had defended.

Why Verstappen received 10s penalties in Mexico when Norris received 5s at Austin

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38, battles with Max Verstappen, Crimson Bull Racing RB20

Photograph by: Sam Bagnall / Motorsport Photographs

This was exhausting at Flip 12 on the Circuit of the Americas, the place each vehicles briefly ended up within the run-off.

Article 54.3 covers the scope of penalties F1 stewards can select to use in these circumstances, with these starting from the 5-10s time additions, plus drive-through and 10s stop-and-go sanctions – relying on the severity of the incidents in query.

Talking about his Mexico penalties, Verstappen mentioned after that race: “Truthfully, 20s is so much, however I am not going to cry about it and I am additionally not going to share my opinion.”

Norris mentioned “Austin, I do not suppose anybody ought to have gotten a penalty”, including “as an instance we each form of did issues fallacious”.

He continued: “I really feel like I used to be made to do one thing fallacious. The vast majority of drivers really feel like that was the identical factor. That is why you have heard of a few of the rule modifications that is perhaps coming and people forms of issues.

“It is as a result of there is a frequent consensus that it wasn’t appropriate what occurred within the outcome that I had final weekend. [Mexico], I feel, was one other degree.”

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