Oliver Bearman has been hit with another penalty point on his F1 super licence after his S\u00e3o Paulo sprint collision with Racing Bulls’ Liam Lawson. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The two drivers clashed at Turn 4 on the opening lap of the one-third distance race at Interlagos, with both pointing the finger at the other.<\/p>\n
After the incident was initially noted by race control, it was progressed to a full investigation after the 24-lap race in Brazil.<\/p>\n
The summons confirmed the main focus was the alleged “driving in a manner deemed potentially dangerous by Car 87 on a straight”, that is on the approach to Turn 4, and not for the collision in Turn 4 itself.<\/p>\n
The stewards have handed Bearman a five-second penalty, which has not affected the classification, with the Briton remaining in 12th.<\/p>\n
But after recently losing two penalty points off his licence after the Mexico City GP to drop from 10 – and on the cusp of a race ban – to eight, the addition of a single point for this incident has placed him on nine.<\/p>\n
Bearman has to wait until next May before further points are wiped off his licence.<\/p>\n
Assessing the incident, the stewards observed: “After losing momentum at the exit of Turn 3, car 87 was approached by car 30 [Lawson], which had greater speed and was in the process of drawing alongside on the straight towards Turn 4.<\/p>\n
“As car 30 attempted to move alongside, the driver of car 87 moved to the left, leaving insufficient room and forcing car 30 to place two wheels on the wet grass.<\/p>\n
“Although car 30 managed to keep control and avoid contact, this manoeuvre occurred at high speed and created an unnecessary risk.<\/p>\n
“The stewards consider that the move of car 87 constituted potentially dangerous driving, in breach of Appendix L, Chapter IV, Article 2 e) of the International Sporting Code.<\/p>\n
“As no contact occurred, and car 30 was able to maintain control, and considering consistency with comparable previous cases, the stewards deem a five-second time penalty and one penalty point to be appropriate and proportionate.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Bearman has been hit with another penalty point on his F1 super licence after his S\u00e3o Paulo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271693,"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-271692","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\/271692","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=271692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}