Oscar Piastri will not face a grid penalty for the Singapore Grand Prix, despite being unable to serve a punishment in Baku.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The championship leader was handed a five-second time penalty in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix for jumping the start, as was Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, the McLaren driver was unable to serve his penalty after crashing out on the first lap. Piastri made a huge error at Turn 5, causing him to crash into the barrier on the outside of the corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Australian was forced to watch the race from where he crashed, due to being unable to cross the Baku City Circuit to return to the F1 paddock.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Piastri being unable to serve his penalty immediately led to speculation that he could receive a grid penalty in Singapore; however, that is not the case following a recent rule change.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the past, a driver has received a three-place grid penalty for being unable to serve a five-second time penalty, although that rule has changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The teams decided last year that five-second time penalties should not be carried over if they cannot be served due to a retirement, unlike a 10-second time penalty or multiple five-second penalties.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is outlined on page 13, note eight in the F1 penalty guidelines, which states: “In cases where there is a single five-second penalty which a driver is unable to serve due to retirement, the Stewards will not convert that into a grid penalty for \u00a0a subsequent race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“However, if there is more than one penalty, the Stewards may convert the 5s (and other) penalties into a grid penalty.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri will not face a grid penalty for the Singapore Grand Prix, despite being unable to serve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161206,"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-161205","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\/161205","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=161205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}