News Details

Lewis Hamilton hit with grid penalty, promoting Max Verstappen to front-row

Lewis Hamilton has been hit with a three-place grid penalty for blocking Kimi Raikkonen during qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix. The championship leader impeded Raikkonen at Turn 2 during the opening part of qualifying, forcing the Finn to abandon the lap he was on. Raikkonen did however make it through to Q2 and then Q3, eventually qualifying seventh, whilst Hamilton went on to qualify second behind Ferrari's Charles Leclerc. The stewards though decided to impose a penalty of three places, meaning Hamilton drops down to fifth, promoting Max Verstappen to the front-row alongside Leclerc. Valtteri Bottas moves up to third with McLaren's Lando Norris securing fourth after...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Kimi Raikkonen says Lewis Hamilton deserves penalty...

Kimi Raikkonen has called for Lewis Hamilton to be penalised for blocking...
5y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Hamilton facing possible Austria grid penalty

Lewis Hamilton is at risk of a grid penalty for the Austrian Grand Prix...
5y ago from GPFans.com

Hamilton under investigation for blocking incident in...

Austrian Grand Prix – Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton is being...
5y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Ricciardo, Norris, Raikkonen to see FIA stewards for...

Daniel Ricciardo, Lando Norris and Kimi Raikkonen are all set to visit...
5y ago from Crash.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Juncos Hollinger shows off new-look livery for 2025...

Juncos Hollinger Racing unveiled a new look for the 2025 NTT IndyCar...

IndyCar takes over promotion of Nashville event

IndyCar’s Music City Grand Prix will be promoted internally by IndyCar...

Scott McLaughlin on track to repeat Supercars success...

After spending the last four years moving up the ranks in the NTT IndyCar...

Christian Lundgaard hails ‘pure racing’ aspect of...

Christian Lundgaard is beginning his fourth full season driving in the...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Sebastian Ogier does it again! Venit,  vidit, vicit.

Sebastian Ogier and Vincent Landais overcame everything that Rallye Monte...
10h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Bayern Munich transfer update: Joshua Kimmich latest...

Bayern Munich's Joshua Kimmich is set to leave the Bundesliga club at the...
35m ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Premier League Team of the Week: Erling Haaland, Cody...

Sports Mole selects its Premier League Team of the Week for gameweek 23,...
2h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

PGMOL release Michael Oliver statement as...

The PGMOL announce that the police are investigating 'abhorrent attacks'...
5h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

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.