Grid penalties for Max Verstappen, Valtteri Bottas and Charles Leclerc, among others! The Russian Grand Prix is getting a race within the race, with so many top riders starting at the back. But how do those grid staffs actually work?
Let’s start at the beginning and explain how the starting grid position is established in the case of grid penalties. We do that in the video below.
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Now the penalized drivers for the Russian Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen has received the highest penalty and will start at the back anyway. He switched to his fourth power unit, but also has a second penalty. Right, the grid penalty for his part in the crash with Lewis Hamilton at Monza.
Charles Leclerc can be found on P19. He also switched to a fourth power unit. He qualified behind Nicholas Latifi and Valtteri Bottas.
Nicholas latifi replaced just about everything on his Williams, but qualified for Leclerc. That’s why we find him on P18.
Valtteri Bottas is used by Mercedes as a tactical stopper for Verstappen’s advance. He changed his entire power unit and starts in P16, as he qualified ahead of Latifi and Leclerc.
Antonio Giovinazzi gets a new gearbox and that results in a grid penalty of 5 places. He qualified 15th and now starts 17th. Why not further back? Because his 5 place grid penalty is significantly lower than the grid penalty positions received by the drivers behind him for switching a full power unit.
View the full grid for the Russian GP after all penalties here.
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