Kimi Antonelli will lose three places at the start.
Kimi Antonelli will lose three places on the grid for tomorrow's race and received 1 penalty point on his super license for insufficiently reducing speed in the yellow flag zone at the end of qualifying when Max Verstappen's car spun.
Explaining his actions, Kimi stated that upon seeing the yellow flag and light panel, he reduced speed earlier than on the previous lap, which was confirmed by telemetry data. However, the reduction in speed occurred for a very short period, so overall the car's speed when passing the incident location was even higher than on the previous lap.
Typically, in such cases, a penalty of losing five places on the grid is applied, but the stewards took into account that the driver did reduce speed, albeit insufficiently. Additionally, the driver had little time to react to the situation, so a lesser penalty was imposed.
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Kimi Antonelli will lose three places at the start.
Kimi Antonelli will lose three places on the grid for tomorrow's race due to insufficient speed reduction in the yellow flag zone...
