Lance Stroll was given a five-place grid penalty on the American Grand Prix.
The Aston Martin driver was penalized for wiping out Esteban Ocon’s Haas whereas preventing for twelfth place within the Austin dash on Saturday.
Stroll charged behind Ocon in an try to overtake the Frenchman, however locked up and collided together with his Haas.
The contact pressured Ocon out of the race and fatally broken Stroll’s AMR25, however the Canadian initially tried to proceed earlier than going off the monitor.
In addition to making up for his five-place grid drop, Stroll additionally obtained two penalty factors on his licence, taking his whole factors over the previous 12 months to seven.
Drivers who accumulate 12 penalty factors in a 12-month interval will obtain an computerized one-race suspension.
The accident was investigated by the stewards after the dash race.
“Automotive No. 18 tried to overhaul automotive No. 31 on the within at Flip 1, however misplaced the braking level and collided with automotive No. 31,” the assertion stated.
“The stewards discover the driving force of automotive No. 18 to be fully at fault and can apply the penalty accordingly.
“The penalized driver didn’t full the race and can subsequently be assessed a grid penalty equal to a ten second time penalty.”
Ocon downplayed the incident after the race.
“All of us take quite a lot of dangers in a dash race. The reward for shifting ahead remains to be very excessive, so we have now to work laborious to efficiently overtake,” he stated.
“However sadly, mistaken place, mistaken time. It is a race, so some issues occur, however we have now to try for a greater qualifying.”
