50-lap race on the streets of Las Vegas<\/a> but any hopes of a good result evaporated at the first corner after he dove up the inside of several cars before colliding with Stroll ahead.<\/p>\nThe contact sent Bortoleto into a spin and eventually retirement on the second lap, while Stroll was out immediately following the hit, with the incident place under investigation for after the race.<\/p>\n
The stewards eventually handed Bortoleto a five-place grid penalty for the Qatar Grand Prix next weekend and two penalty points on his licence, noting that the Brazilian “braked extremely late”.<\/p>\n
They added that the grid penalty was in lieu of a 10-second race penalty, which could not be served due to Bortoleto’s retirement, “as per the guidelines”.<\/p>\n
“It was my fault. I think I just misjudged the grip that I had and where I was on track,” said Bortoleto, who has now crashed out of the last three races.<\/p>\n
“I had a very good launch and went for a move on the inside of the Williams, and when I put the car on the left-hand side of the Williams, it was already time to brake and I broke like five metres too late, then just arrived a bit too long in the corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had no angle to do the corner because I was completely on the inside, and just misjudged it. It was my fault.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stroll added: “It happens. It’s racing. Sometimes these things happen and it is what it is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Bortoleto has been handed a five-place grid penalty for the Qatar Grand Prix after his opening corner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-303235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303235","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=303235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}