{"id":23549,"date":"2025-07-25T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23549\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:33:09","slug":"yuki-tsunoda-comes-to-the-rescue-after-fia-launch-belgian-gp-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23549\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuki Tsunoda comes to the rescue after FIA launch Belgian GP investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alpine driver Pierre Gasly has escaped a penalty after the FIA launched an investigation into an impeding incident with Yuki Tsunoda at the Belgian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>And the stewards have revealed how Tsunoda helped Gasly avoid a punishment, protesting that his rival did not impede him on track during sprint qualifying at Spa.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Gasly escapes FIA penalty over Yuki Tsunoda incident<\/p>\n<p>Gasly produced another fine qualifying performance to secure eighth on the grid for Saturday\u2019s mini race at Spa.<\/p>\n<p>Gasly was beaming after forcing his way into the top-10 shootout, telling Alpine over team radio at the end of his SQ2 lap: \u201cThat was a **** good lap! Tell me we\u2019re through!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the Frenchman found himself at risk of a grid penalty over an untelevised impeding incident with Tsunoda at Turn 17, otherwise known as Blanchimont, one of the fastest parts of the circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Yuki Tsunoda vs Max Verstappen: Red Bull head-to-head scores for F1 2025<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/f1-2025-qualifying-head-to-head-team-mates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1 2025: Head-to-head qualifying statistics between team-mates<\/a><\/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>Gasly and Tsunoda, along with team representatives of Alpine and Red Bull, were required to meet the stewards at 1745 local time in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Gasly has escaped a grid drop for Saturday\u2019s sprint race with the FIA taking no further action.<\/p>\n<p>And the stewards\u2019 verdict revealed how Tsunoda fought Gasly\u2019s corner, insisting that the Alpine driver did not impede him with the Red Bull man instead gaining a tow.<\/p>\n<p>It read: \u201cThe Stewards heard from the driver of Car 22 (Yuki Tsunoda), the driver of Car 10 (Pierre Gasly), team representatives and reviewed positioning\/marshalling system data, video, timing, telemetry and in-car video evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe driver of Car 22 stated that he actually received a \u2018tow\u2019 from Car 10 and did not have to back off in speed. This was verified by the telemetry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe further stated he was not impeded and did not need to take any evasive action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of the above the Stewards decide to take no further action because no \u2018unnecessary impeding\u2019 occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompetitors are reminded that they have the right to appeal certain decisions of the Stewards, in accordance with Article 15 of the FIA International Sporting Code and Chapter 4 of the FIA Judicial and Disciplinary Rules, within the applicable time limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gasly and Tsunoda spent two full seasons as team-mates at the Racing Bulls (then AlphaTauri) across 2021\/22, with the former acting as a mentor to the Japanese driver before joining Alpine for 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Read next:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/toto-wolff-christian-horner-max-verstappen-sack-theory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toto Wolff addresses Max Verstappen conspiracy theory after Christian Horner sack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alpine driver Pierre Gasly has escaped a penalty after the FIA launched an investigation into an impeding incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[9048,1687,8097,372,6537,348,50,3803,101,56,54,55,7942],"class_list":["post-23549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-belgian-grand-prix","tag-f1","tag-fia","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-home-page","tag-news","tag-red-bull","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-yuki-tsunoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23549","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=23549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}