ANDthe result of Austrian GP has been affected by a rain of sanctions as a consequence of having exceeded the limits on the track. The protest of Aston Martin At the end of the race on Sunday, he forced the race management to review the deleted laps to impose the corresponding penalty.
Up to eight pilots were punished: Carlos Sainz, Lewis Hamilton, Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Logan Sargeant, Nyck de Vries, Yuki Tsunoda and Estaban Ocon. The latter received 30 second penaltyhowever the radio with his track engineer shows that he caught them a bit by surprise.
Once the race is over, the conversation between Ocon and his manager, Josh Peckett, if he mentioned the fuss over runway limits. “Ok, ok. We’ve finished P12. Not the result we want, but well done nonetheless. It has been a very busy race and with a lot of sanctions for track limits”. indicated the engineer. To which the French responds: “Yes, not for us, we haven’t had one”.
They celebrated not having received any penalties and even congratulated the pilot for “handle that matter so well“. However, the review of the removed laps did not reflect the same. Esteban Ocon had 10 runway limit warningsduring the long race held in Austria, which cost him 30 second punishment. That made me end up in the 14 position.
A dishonorable record
The French pilot already has the record for most penalties in the same race. Before traveling to Spielberg I already shared this dubious honor with Pastor Maldonado. The Venezuelan took three penalties at the 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix when he raced Lotus. The one from Alpine had done the same in the Bahrain GPthe first of this season, and now level up with four penalties.
