{"id":4069,"date":"2025-07-17T23:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4069\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:59:09","slug":"jolyon-palmer-questions-stewards-over-innocuous-oscar-piastri-penalty-at-british-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4069\/","title":{"rendered":"Jolyon Palmer questions stewards over “innocuous” Oscar Piastri penalty at British GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Formula 1 driver and reporter Jolyon Palmer<\/a> has branded Oscar Piastri’s British Grand Prix penalty as “harsh”.<\/p>\n

The McLaren<\/a> driver was handed a 10-second penalty during the race at Silverstone for driving erratically behind the safety car. Leading at the time, Piastri’s braking caused\u00a0Max Verstappen<\/a> to temporarily overtake him before dropping back again.<\/p>\n

After serving the penalty, he lost the lead to his team-mate Lando Norris<\/a>, who went on to secure his first home race victory.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s a couple of things here. I don’t think he’s done anything extraordinarily wrong,” Palmer explained during the F1 Nation podcast<\/a>. “He’s obviously backed up the field on the safety car restart. He’s hit reasonable brake pressure to slow the car down, but I just don’t see it as a major moment.<\/p>\n

“He’s done exactly the same thing four laps before that. Actually almost caused a little bit more drama further back in the field with Nico Hulkenberg<\/a> not being happy and had to take a bit of avoiding action. But that one, the FIA didn’t even look at it.<\/p>\n

“They reportedly weren’t best pleased and were debating whether they were going to look at it, but they just fundamentally didn’t. So then to give quite a significant penalty four laps later for something that was, to me, looked really innocuous – oh, it’s harsh.<\/p>\n

“And also, I mean, we’ve been following [F1] a long time. Can you guys remember a single penalty for this sort of infringement before? Because\u00a0I can’t.<\/p>\n

\"Oscar <\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri, McLaren<\/p>\n

Photo by: Simon Galloway \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“Someone being erratic – you know, George Russell<\/a> wasn’t even investigated in Canada for something – not that comparable – but ultimately a similar offence. And Red Bull appealed it, and it was thrown out.<\/p>\n

“I can’t remember a single driver ever getting pinged for this. So, for Oscar to lose a race win for something that caused no real drama further back – I know Max overtook him, but they sorted themselves out.<\/p>\n

“There was no – I don’t think there was bad intent. There was no advantage gained. I’ve never seen someone penalised for it in the past. And then he loses a British Grand Prix win. I could feel his frustration at the end of the race.”<\/p>\n

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