Three penalties in Formula 1! Mexico race result amended retrospectively

Bitter news for several drivers following the Formula 1 race in Mexico! McLaren driver Oscar Piastri lost seventh place – and with it six World Championship points – following the race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez due to a 10-second time penalty imposed after the Grand Prix for a manoeuvre against Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls). The Alpine drivers Franco Colapinto and Pierre Gasly were also each retrospectively handed a time penalty for misconduct under yellow flags.

Mexican GP: Piastri/Lindblad trigger yellow flag

What happened? The closing stages of the Mexican Grand Prix were chaotic: Following a lengthy red flag period (Bottas’s crash), there was another yellow flag and a safety car deployment on lap 59 when Arvid Lindblad was hit by Oscar Piastri and ended up in the barriers.

The stewards had their hands full during this phase of the race, investigating several suspected false starts and speeding offences (5 seconds for Pérez), as well as a number of incidents on the track (10 seconds for Hülkenberg) – and, of course, the two yellow flag infringements by the Alpine drivers and the incident involving Piastri. The investigations into these three cases were postponed until after the race. The drivers were allowed to give their accounts and put forward their arguments. And they were all subsequently handed penalties.

McLaren driver Piastri penalised

First, the decision regarding Piastri: shortly before 6.00 pm local time (1.00 am here), the race stewards announced that Piastri had never been level with Lindblad during their battle at Turn 1, and therefore did not have the right of way into the corner. Lindblad had defended himself, but Piastri had left him plenty of room. The collision between the two drivers at Turn 2, which resulted in Lindblad’s retirement, could, in the stewards’ view, have been avoided if Piastri had continued further to the left after Turn 1. A 10-second penalty imposed retrospectively on Oscar Piastri!

Alpine: Double penalty overnight

The decision regarding the two Alpine drivers was announced at half past seven in the evening in Mexico. TV viewers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland had long since been in bed by half past two in the morning. In both cases, the race stewards deemed it proven that the drivers had not eased off the throttle sufficiently under yellow flags: Gasly under double yellow (worse!), Colapinto under single yellow. Colapinto was retrospectively handed a 10-second time penalty, whilst Gasly received a stop-and-go penalty, which (as it was imposed after the race) was converted into a full 30 seconds.

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Gasly finishes last in the Mexican F1 Grand Prix following penalty

For Alpine, this means the loss of double points: Franco Colapinto had finished eighth (which would have been four points), Pierre Gasly tenth (which would have been one point). Gasly also receives two penalty points, Colapinto just one. However, neither is anywhere near facing a potential ban. Following the penalty, Piastri is 13th, Colapinto 15th and Gasly 17th.

All these penalties mean the following for the race result: no change in the top six. Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) moves up to seventh, Gabriel Bortoleto (Audi) is eighth, and Isack Hadjar (Red Bull Racing) is ninth. And debutant Ryo Hirakawa (Haas) finishes tenth, thereby securing one point in his first F1 Grand Prix.