ROUND 20: 🇲🇽 Mexico
FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO 2024
Circuit stats
- Circuit name: Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez
- First Grand Prix: 1963
- Number of laps: 71
- Circuit Length: 4.304 km
- Race Distance: 305.354 km
- Lap record: 1:17.774 Valtteri Bottas (2021)
- 2023 winner: Max Verstappen
Track Map
The minimum penalty for that type of incident is 10 seconds. The T8 incident is unquestionably a penalty. The T4 incident was separate and if the FIA also penalizes that, it has to be 20 seconds total.
The FIA says the outcome of the incident doesn’t influence the penalty, so by similar logic you’d think subsequent incidents would also not affect the penalty.
We had three 5 seconds penalties for pushing a driver off track last week. In all cases, the driver pushed off track lost position. Yesterday Lando cut the chicane after being forced wide and ended up ahead of Verstappen resulting in a gain of position. Considering all this, how is 10 seconds justified here for the T4 incident¿? T8 was a much more egregious move by max and was proportionally punished.
