News Details

Penalties and a pit lane start for Austrian Grand Prix

Sebastian Vettel drops three-places due to a penalty he received for impeding Carlos Sainz during qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, but he is not alone as Fernando Alonso and Brendon Hartley also dropped from their original qualifying slot. McLaren's Alonso will start from the pitlane after qualifying 14th, but a front wing change was required after it broke in Q2. Hartley qualified 19th, thus Toro Rosso chose to employ a ‘tactical' change of engine parts to minimise future penalties. He would have started 20th but Alonso's pitlane start means the New Zealander will start from 19th. At the sharp end, Vettel's demotion promotes Kimi Raikkonen to third alongside Red...
Full Story »
6y ago from GrandPrix247.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Alonso to start Austrian GP from pit-lane

Fernando Alonso will start the Austrian Grand Prix from the pit lane at...
6y ago from GPFans.com

Hartley Takes Penalty for Engine Change, Alonso to...

Brendon Hartley will start from the back of the grid for the Austrian...

Honda makes tactical PU change, dropping Brendon...

Toro Rosso’s Brendon Hartley will drop to last place on the...
6y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Hartley to start last in Austria after power unit...

Brendon Hartley will start Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix from the back of...
6y ago from Crash.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

IndyCar Long Beach – Qualifying Results

Saturday’s qualifying for IndyCar’s Grand Prix of Long Beach was an...

Kyle Kirkwood leads Andretti romp in IndyCar Long...

The NTT IndyCar Series completed a knockout qualifying session midday...

Nolan Siegel places papaya on top for IndyCar’s...

IndyCar headed out onto the Long Beach street course Saturday morning,...
12h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Outback diplomacy: Finnish ambassador braves...

o Haapea hopes to raise $30,000 for cancer research as he navigates the...
1w ago from TheGuardian.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal v Brentford: Premier League – live

ne Wissa cancelled out Thomas Partey’s second-half opener to earn...
7h ago from TheGuardian.com

Piers Morgan names what Arsenal could have achieved...

English broadcaster Piers Morgan reckons Cristiano Ronaldo could have...
7h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Brentford’s Yoane Wissa strikes to bring Arsenal...

last time we were here, on Tuesday night, Arsenal enjoyed surely the...
7h ago from TheGuardian.com

“We don’t know” - Mikel Arteta says Arsenal star...

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has revealed that star midfielder Thomas Partey...
7h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.