Farce at Red Bull Ring five hours after Verstappen win the GP of Austria. Aston Martin He submitted a claim to the stewards because all the track limits exceeded by the drivers during the race had not been sanctioned, and the FIA accepted it. There was more than 1,200 possible infractions for the so-called ‘track limits’ during the race at turns nine and ten and the stewards were not able to check all of them, one by one, during the race. So once Aston’s sports department lit the fuse, the stewards jumped right into all those laps that hadn’t been able to be analyzed before.
The changes are as follows: Sainz receives a 10-second penalty, as well as Hamilton, Gasly, Sargeant and Albon. Ocon has 30 seconds! penalty, De Vries has 15 seconds and Tsunoda, five seconds. Thus, Carlos falls to sixth position and Norris (4th) and Alonso (5th) overtake him. The Asturian wins a place with the procedure that his team started.
The FIA explains that it has applied a five-second penalty for four excesses on the track limits and ten seconds for the fifth. From there, they have restarted the account (instead of punishing the sixth and successive ones more harshly) due to the high number of existing infractions. They also recall that they have asked in the past to introduce a gravel loophole in the third sector of the circuit to discourage drivers, who would lose time as soon as they touched down instead of asphalt. But they are changes that have not been implemented, for one reason or another, and every time Formula 1 lands in Austria, the track limits generate problems and sanctions. As the system to monitor it is not automatic, as it happens in MotoGP, the official classification of the Austrian GP took longer to arrive than the race itself.