{"id":303527,"date":"2025-11-23T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303527\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:10:11","slug":"stewards-explain-why-they-did-not-penalise-lawson-for-colliding-with-piastri-%c2%b7-racefans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/303527\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewards explain why they did not penalise Lawson for colliding with Piastri \u00b7 RaceFans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Grand Prix stewards have explained why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/liam-lawson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Lawson<\/a> was not penalised for his first-lap collision with Oscar Piastri.<\/p>\n<p>The pair tangled in turn one on the first lap of the race. Lawson hit the side of Piastri\u2019s McLaren, forcing him wide. Although Lawson got ahead of Piastri it proved temporary as he had sustained front wing damage and had to pit moments later. However Lawson\u2019s team mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/f1-information\/drivers\/isack-hadjar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isack Hadjar<\/a> took advantage of the opportunity to pass the McLaren and remained ahead for many laps.<\/p>\n<p>The stewards decided Lawson was to blame for the collision but felt there were mitigating circumstances which meant he should not be penalised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCar 30 [Lawson] made a move to the right and collided with car 81 [Piastri],\u201d the stewards noted, \u201chowever in mitigation car 30 made the move to avoid colliding with the rear of car 63 [Russell] whose driver locked up to avoid a collision with car 55 [Sainz].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of this and the fact that this was on lap one [at] turn one, we determine no further action [should be taken].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stewards will investigate another first-corner collision between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/f1-information\/drivers\/gabriel-bortoleto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Bortoleto<\/a> and Lance Stroll after the race.<\/p>\n<p>Penalty box<\/p>\n<p>Should the stewards have issued a penalty? Cast your vote below and have your say in the comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Should the stewards have penalised Piastri or Lawson for their collision?<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNo opinion (9%)<br \/>\n\t\tStrong penalty for Lawson (4%)<br \/>\n\t\tLight penalty for Lawson (39%)<br \/>\n\t\tNo penalty for either driver (48%)<br \/>\n\t\tLight penalty for Piastri (0%)<br \/>\n\t\tStrong penalty for Piastri (0%)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;clear: left\">Total Voters: 23<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757269929_922_loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\"\/>\u00a0Loading &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A RaceFans account is required in order to vote. 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Sign up here:<\/p>\n<p>2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racefans.net\/tag\/2025-las-vegas-grand-prix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Browse all 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Grand Prix stewards have explained why Liam Lawson was not penalised for his first-lap collision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[173278,43,3352,44,2333,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-303527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2025-las-vegas-grand-prix","tag-headlines","tag-liam-lawson","tag-news","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303527","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=303527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}