Lance Stroll has been hit with a five-place grid penalty for the United States Grand Prix following a collision with the Haas of Esteban Ocon during Saturday\u2019s Sprint.<\/p>\n
As the action-packed 100 kilometre dash entered into its final stages, Stroll<\/a> tried to overtake Ocon<\/a> into Turn 1 \u2013 but the Aston Martin<\/a> driver locked up and hit his rival, putting Ocon out of the running.<\/p>\n While Stroll initially tried to continue on, he subsequently pulled off the track owing to the damage on his AMR25. The incident was then investigated after the Sprint<\/a>, with the stewards ultimately deciding to hand the Canadian a five-place grid drop for Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n Stroll has also received two penalty points on his licence, bringing his total across the last 12 months to seven points.<\/p>\n A document released following the stewards\u2019 hearing \u2013 in which they heard from Stroll, Ocon and their respective team representatives \u2013 reads: \u201cCar 18 attempted an inside overtake on Car 31 into Turn 1 but misjudged the braking point and collided with Car 31.<\/p>\n \u201cThe stewards determine that the driver of Car 18 is wholly at fault and apply a penalty accordingly.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the driver to be penalized did not finish the race a grid penalty equalling a 10 seconds time penalty is imposed.\u201d<\/p>\n Stroll and Ocon were two of five drivers to record a DNF in the Sprint, with the McLaren<\/a> pair of Lando Norris<\/a> and Oscar Piastri<\/a> \u2013 along with Aston Martin<\/a>\u2019s Fernando Alonso<\/a> \u2013 retiring from the event on Lap 1 following a first corner melee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lance Stroll has been hit with a five-place grid penalty for the United States Grand Prix following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-210479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210479","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=210479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}