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Crackdown 13/19/2021
Instead of allowing Hamilton through immediately, Perez opted to let Hamilton lap him at the start of the following lap on the main straight.The FIA stewards subsequently handed the Mexican a five-second time penalty during the race which meant Perez slipped behind Racing Point teammate Lance Stroll to fifth in the final classification.AlphaTauris Kvyat also received a five-second time penalty for ignoring blue flags during Sundays Spanish Grand Prix.
Down 1 Drivers Clearly ExcessiveAfter the 66-lap race, Perez labelled his penalty unfair as he felt he had allowed Hamilton through at the best moment, but F1 race director Michael Masi said the the stewards took a dim view of both drivers clearly excessive breaches of the rules. Masi revealed the subject of harsher enforcement of blue flag penalties had been discussed during the Styrian Grand Prix weekend in Austria in July. Both Sergio and Dany Kvyat got a penalty for failing to obey the blue flags, Masi explained. My view with both of those is they were effectively took way too long. It was something we discussed at the driver meeting following the first Austria meeting, so the Styrian GP. It was discussed that there would be much more of a crackdown on blue flags this year and this is the first place weve seen two cars in particular breach the rules. But those two were both clearly excessive, and were referred to the stewards. For me they imposed the penalty of five-second time penalty for not doing so. It seemed to be that after that from the blue flag report I got, it was acknowledged up and down the pit lane and I got a number of managers ring to say they were really glad to see people penalised for not obeying blue flags. Previous Updated F1 World Championship points standings after Spanish GP Next Spanish GP stats: Hamilton eclipses another Schumacher F1 record Click Here for Comments (2) Recommended for you F1 Honda protege Tsunoda leads F2-to-F1 tips to graduate in 2021 1 F1 Horrific Ferrari form will leave Sainz nervous for F1 2021 - Brawn 5 F1 Red Bull praises in-form Gasly, insists Albon re-swap not on cards 1 F1 How resilient Gasly is forging his path to F1 redemption 3 F1 Hamilton sympathises with fans frustration at F1 domination 16 F1 Ferrari disappointed and angry at worst F1 result in 10 years 5 Comments Loading Comments.
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