{"id":209558,"date":"2025-10-18T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209558\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:30:10","slug":"lance-stroll-hit-with-grid-penalty-after-esteban-ocon-sprint-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209558\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Stroll hit with grid penalty after Esteban Ocon Sprint collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lance Stroll has been handed a five-place grid penalty after his Sprint collision with Esteban Ocon at the Circuit of The Americas.<\/p>\n<p>The Aston Martin driver looked to make a move on the Haas at Turn 1, but ran in too deep on entry and caused both to retire from Saturday\u2019s Sprint.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Stroll handed double punishment for US GP Sprint collision<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/driver\/lance-stroll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stroll<\/a> was challenging Ocon just outside the top 10 in Saturday\u2019s 19-lap race, but appeared to try a move from too far behind the French driver and made contact, with both drivers suffering damage to be fixed before qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian appeared to gesture in apology to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/driver\/esteban-ocon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ocon<\/a> out of his car, raising a hand as he went by during an attempt in vain to keep his Sprint going.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the FIA stewards have handed him a five-place grid penalty to be added after qualifying, along with two penalty points to be added to his Super Licence, taking his tally to seven in the last 12-month period.<\/p>\n<p>More from the US Grand Prix weekend<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/f1-2025-race-head-to-head-team-mates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1 2025: Head-to-head race statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/united-states-grand-prix-2025-sprint-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Grand Prix: Verstappen wins Sprint as pile-up claims both McLarens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having visited the stewards, their verdict read: \u201cCar 18 [Stroll] attempted an inside overtake on Car 31 [Ocon] into Turn 1 but misjudged the braking point and collided with Car 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Stewards determine that the driver of Car 18 is wholly at fault and apply a penalty accordingly. As the driver to be penalized did not finish the race a grid penalty equalling a 10 seconds time penalty is imposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bearman avoids penalty points after 10-second punishment<\/p>\n<p>Ocon\u2019s Haas teammate, Oliver Bearman, was handed a 10-second time penalty during Saturday\u2019s Sprint, after running off-track to maintain his advantage over Kimi Antonelli\u2019s Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>This dropped the Briton from a points-paying position to 15th and last come the chequered flag, with Max Verstappen having taken victory at the chequered flag under Safety Car conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Given the nature of Bearman\u2019s transgression, penalty points are not usually handed to drivers to leave the track and gain a lasting advantage. This is good news for the rookie, as his 10 points place him just two away from being handed a race ban.<\/p>\n<p>Bearman will have the rest of the weekend in Austin, as well as next weekend\u2019s Mexico City Grand Prix, to navigate before any penalty points expire.<\/p>\n<p>Read next:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/zak-brown-amateur-hour-nico-hulkenberg-lando-norris-oscar-piastri-collide-united-states-grand-prix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zak Brown blasts \u2018amateur hour\u2019 Hulkenberg as Norris and Piastri collide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lance Stroll has been handed a five-place grid penalty after his Sprint collision with Esteban Ocon at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6538,19528,1687,372,6537,1152,348,6543,50,101,56,54,43212,55],"class_list":["post-209558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-aston-martin","tag-esteban-ocon","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-haas","tag-home-page","tag-lance-stroll","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states-grand-prix","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}