{"id":300842,"date":"2025-11-22T05:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300842\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T05:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:51:08","slug":"mercedes-summoned-to-f1-las-vegas-gp-stewards-for-not-submitting-set-up-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/300842\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes summoned to F1 Las Vegas GP stewards for not submitting set-up sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mercedes\/36495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mercedes<\/a> has been summoned to the Formula 1 stewards for not submitting set-up documents in time for the Las Vegas Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It relates to a set-up sheet that all teams must submit for both of their cars, as per Article 40.1 of the 2025 championship\u2019s sporting regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The Article says: \u201cEach Competitor must provide the Technical Delegate with a suspension set-up sheet for both of their cars before each of them leaves the pitlane for the first time during the sprint qualifying session and the qualifying session.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the stewards stated Mercedes had not submitted the sheet by 8:12pm local time in Vegas, despite qualifying having started at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>A team representative must therefore report to the stewards at 9:45pm locally and it is not yet entirely clear what a punishment may be should the summons go further.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Autosport sources, however, the maximum punishment would be a disqualification from qualifying &#8211; though that is an extreme example.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.motorsport.com\/images\/mgl\/6DGq1DOY\/s1000\/george-russell-mercedes.jpg\" alt=\"George Russell, Mercedes\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">George Russell, Mercedes<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Sam Bloxham \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a mixed qualifying for Mercedes, whose drivers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/george-russell\/840489\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">George Russell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/andrea-kimi-antonelli\/953410\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Andrea Kimi Antonelli<\/a> respectively qualified fourth and 17th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a tricky session though given the wet conditions, which caught out rookie Antonelli, who claimed he was fast on his final lap in Q1 but took extra precaution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old said: \u201cIt was tricky for everyone. Obviously, it was very slippery and just, yeah, I don&#8217;t know. The last lap was going to be good enough for top five and I took some margin in the last braking and just to avoid any bad surprises and just still ended up locking up and losing the lap and got knocked out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo laps before I was in P5, I think, and then obviously to end up P17 is very frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional reporting by Ronald Vording<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes has been summoned to the Formula 1 stewards for not submitting set-up documents in time for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[12295,64,63,817,813,816,3875,165239,945,172010,85,165240],"class_list":["post-300842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-andrea-kimi-antonelli","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-george-russell","tag-las-vegas-gp","tag-mercedes","tag-mercedes-summoned-to-f1-las-vegas-gp-stewards-for-not-submitting-set-up-sheets","tag-sports","tag-streets-of-las-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300842","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=300842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}