So far, three Formula 1 drivers will have to serve grid penalties at this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia. <\/p>\n
Racing Bulls driver Arvid Lindblad will start at the back of the grid as his team fits new power unit components. <\/p>\n
Racing Bulls announced on Thursday at Sepang that Lindblad would take multiple fresh power unit components that will trigger a back-of-the-grid penalty. <\/p>\n
Franco Colapinto picked up a five-place drop for causing a collision with team-mate Pierre Gasly and McLaren’s Lando Norris in Baku. <\/p>\n
Colapinto was initially awarded a 10-second time penalty, but as he was out of the race and unable to serve the penalty, it was converted into a five-place grid drop for his next race. <\/p>\n
Alpine opted change his internal combustion engine (his fifth of the year) on Friday at Sepang, so that’s an additional 10-place grid penalty. <\/p>\n
Isack Hadjar revealed in his Thursday media session that he’d be facing a grid drop for his seventh ICE of the season. <\/p>\n
“It’s going to be difficult for me, I should be taking five places penalty, but even like that, I believe it’s a track [where if] you have the race pace, you go up,” Hadjar said. <\/p>\n
“If we can’t, then that means we’re not fast enough. So let\u2019s see.” <\/p>\n
Sepang grid penalties <\/p>\n
Hadjar – 5-place grid penalty
Colapinto – 15-place grid penalty
Lindblad – Back-of-the-grid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So far, three Formula 1 drivers will have to serve grid penalties at this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789464","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=789464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}