Ollie Bearman will start the Dutch Grand Prix from the Zandvoort pit lane following a change of power unit in the back of his Haas.<\/p>\n
The move by the American team could be to take advantage of a potentially impending penalty for a rare rules breach, with the final outcome being the same.<\/p>\n
Bearman had qualified 19th and slowest of all the drivers to set a lap-time after Lance Stroll crashed, but hours after qualifying, the team were reported to the stewards by FIA technical delegate Jo Bauer for a breach of Article 40.6 of the sporting regulations.<\/p>\n
This covers the fact that Bearman’s car was not covered within two hours of qualifying finishing, so FIA seals can be fixed ahead of parc ferme.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The wording of the rule adds that any driver found to have breached Article 40.6 will also be found to have broken Article 40.9, parc ferme regulations, and be handed a mandatory pit-lane start.<\/p>\n
The FIA has yet to officially confirm the pit lane start for the British driver, with the matter having been referred to the stewards.<\/p>\n
Bearman was on the limit of a grid penalty for most of the power unit components now replaced, but because the changes were made in parc ferme conditions, a pit lane start is the appropriate punishment.<\/p>\n
Specifically, the 20-year-old is now onto his fifth internal combustion engine (ICE); fifth turbocharger (TC); fifth motor generator unit-kinetic (MGU-K), and motor generator unit-heat (MGU-H); and third control electronics (CE), all of which are one unit past the allowed allocation of components.<\/p>\n
His change to a sixth exhaust system (EX) does not garner a penalty as eight are allowed over the course of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ollie Bearman will start the Dutch Grand Prix from the Zandvoort pit lane following a change of power…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-108516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}