March 29, 2024
https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/31154246/vettel-gets-five-penalty-points-aston-martin-debut

Sebastian Vettel’s underwhelming Aston Martin launching saw him leave the Bahrain Grand Prix with 5 charge points on his superlicence for 2 various occurrences throughout the weekend.

Vettel had a hard time throughout his very first weekend with his brand-new group and completed 15th of 16 finishers, ahead of just Haas’ Mick Schumacher.

Late in the race, Vettel drove into the back of Alpine’s Esteban Ocon at Turn 1. Both chauffeurs handled to get their vehicles began once again after the accident however it required Vettel to pit.

Vettel recommended Ocon had actually altered his line under braking however the stewards disagreed, handing Vettel a 10-second time charge and 2 charge points on his superlicence.

The decision read: “The Stewards evaluated several angles of video proof and telemetry and identified that Vehicle 5 was entirely to blame for the contact at Turn 1.”

Vettel had actually currently been offered a grid charge and 3 charge points on Saturday for stopping working to slow for yellow flags throughout the very first session of certifying. Vettel certified 18th, so the charge dropped him to the back of the grid for the start of the race.

F1 chauffeurs get an automated one-race restriction if they accumulate 12 charge points or more over a rolling 12 month duration. Vettel has 5 from the very first weekend alone, although he had a clean record ahead of the race weekend.

Prior to the Ocon accident, Vettel was trying a positive one-stop technique however he questioned a points complete would have been possible with a tidy race.

” It’s been a challenging race, we attempted the one stop, we needed to attempt something various,” he stated.

” At first it appeared like it wasn’t that bad however very first stint however towards completion I was having a hard time a fair bit with tires so I do not believe we might have reasonably scored points.

On the Ocon occurrence and charge, he included: “I was attempting to cut down to the left, however Esteban was moving left also. When I was best behind him I locked the fronts and struck him directly on. Undoubtedly that was not terrific for both of our races.”