{"id":154628,"date":"2025-09-19T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154628\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:38:10","slug":"piastri-avoids-grid-drop-for-yellow-flag-incident-with-gasly-in-second-practice-%c2%b7-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154628\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri avoids grid drop for yellow flag incident with Gasly in second practice \u00b7 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2025\/09\/19\/2025-azerbaijan-grand-prix-practice-in-pictures\/f1-grand-prix-of-azerbaijan-practice-39\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/racefansdotnet-24-09-19-13-10-15-4-2236222581.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Oscar Piastri, McLaren, Baku City Circuit, 2025\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Championship leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/oscar-piastri\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> has been given a reprimand after the stewards ruled he failed to slow sufficiently for yellow flags during the practice.<\/p>\n<p>They found Piastri did not reduce his speed enough when yellow flags were displayed at turn one due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/pierre-gasly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre Gasly<\/a> running wide at the corner. However as Piastri was only briefly within an area covered by yellow flags, and was only aware of the situation he was in because he saw the green flag at the end of the zone, the stewards chose to give him a less severe penalty than a grid drop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA yellow flag was displayed at Marshal Post 1.2 and green light was shown at light panel three,\u201d the stewards explained in their decision. \u201cDrivers had been instructed that if they see a green light they must take the action required under a yellow flag condition even if they had not been shown the yellow flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, the driver had passed Marshal Post 1.2 when the yellow flag was shown for the first time but was able to see the green light at light panel three. The yellow flag was withdrawn less than one second after the green light became visible to the driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore technically a breach of the regulations has occurred however because of the mitigating circumstances above, the penalty imposed is reduced to a reprimand. This is consistent with previous similar incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stewards have previously issued grid drops in more egregious cases of drivers failing to slow for yellow flags. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/lewis-hamilton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> served a five-place grid drop at the last race for failing to slow sufficiently for yellow flags during a reconnaissance lap at the round prior to that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-above-ad\">Advert | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/contribute-racefans\/racefans-supporter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/2025\/09\/19\/stewards-summon-piastri-over-yellow-flag-incident-with-gasly-in-practice\/gasly\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-558380 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gasly.jpg\" alt=\"Gasly could see Piastri's car as he rejoined the track\" width=\"1842\" height=\"1228\" class=\"size-full wp-image-558380\"  \/><\/a>Gasly could see Piastri\u2019s car as he rejoined the track<\/p>\n<p>Miss nothing from RaceFans<\/p>\n<p>Get a daily email with all our latest stories &#8211; and nothing else. 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Sign up here:<\/p>\n<p>2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/tag\/2025-azerbaijan-grand-prix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Browse all 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Championship leader Oscar Piastri has been given a reprimand after the stewards ruled he failed to slow sufficiently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[97998,64,63,2333,85],"class_list":["post-154628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2025-azerbaijan-grand-prix","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154628","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=154628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}