FIA confirms F1 PENALTY after Max Verstappen incident in Spa

The FIA ​​has confirmed that a penalty will be imposed following an incident in which Max Verstappen And Zhou Guanyu in Spa.

Verstappen’s GP weekend in Belgium began with the news that he had a 10 starting places penalty for Sunday’s race after exceeding his quota of combustion engines.

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Despite this setback, the Dutchman was in top form in qualifying, set the fastest time and will start the race from P11 due to his penalty.

Qualifying did not go entirely smoothly for Verstappen as he was involved in an incident in Q1.

FIA imposes penalty on Zhou Guanyu

Verstappen came through Turn 17 in the closing stages of Q1, where he met Zhou, who was driving slowly on the racing line.

The Dutchman was angry about the team radio, with which clean The driver is being investigated for driving while impaired in wet conditions.

“I was told he was in phase with me… but in the end he was on a flying lap, so yeah, easy,” Zhou told the media, including GPFans after qualification.

“They said he was in phase, but he was on a flying lap.”

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The FIA ​​​​has since confirmed that Zhou will receive a three-place grid penalty for impeding Verstappen and has breached Article 37.5 of the regulations.

According to race control, the team informed Zhou about Verstappen, but their information was “not accurate enough”.

Nevertheless, they believed that it was the Sauber driver’s responsibility not to “unnecessarily hinder” others, and in their opinion Zhou did so.

Therefore, he received the penalty, but will still start 19th on the grid ahead of Yuki Tsunoda – who starts last due to a 60 starting places penalty.

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