Fernando Alonso 🇪🇸 starting on the pit lane after stopping on the formation lap

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Oscar Piastri 🇦🇺 reporting damage on his car.

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อเล็กซ์ อัลบอน (Alexander Albon) 🇹🇭 receives a 10s time penalty for causing a collision

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Sir Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 under investigation for moving before the signal.

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Sir Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 receives a 5s time penalty for a false start.

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There was a virtual safety car for an umbrella ☂️ on track

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Sir Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 served his pit stop and 5s time penalty

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George Russell ordered into the pit lane for a slow puncture

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Andrea Kimi Antonelli 🇮🇹 ordered into the pit lane for his stop.
He was impeded by Nico Hülkenberg 🇩🇪 in the pit lane.

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Sir Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 passes Max Verstappen 🇳🇱 for P3

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Nico Hülkenberg 🇩🇪 stops on track and brings out the Virtual Safety Car.

Max Verstappen 🇳🇱, Lando Norris 🇬🇧 and إسحاق حجار (Isack Hadjar) 🇫🇷 pit

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The VSC has ended.

Lance Stroll 🇨🇦 receives a 5s time penalty for leaving the track over 5 times.

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Andrea Kimi Antonelli 🇮🇹 reports something broken on the car

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Andrea Kimi Antonelli 🇮🇹 pits, replaces tyres and front wing. He went from P2 to P5.

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Lance Stroll 🇨🇦 receives a 5s time penalty for leaving the track 6 times. He now has a total of 10s

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Andrea Kimi Antonelli 🇮🇹 reports suspension issues. Team believes it’s the wheel shield.

He tries to continue on to finish the race.

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Andrea Kimi Antonelli 🇮🇹 outs again to remove the broken wheel shield. He comes out P10.

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Andrea Kimi Antonelli 🇮🇹 receives a 5s time penalty for leaving the track over 5 times, due to his broken car.

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อเล็กซ์ อัลบอน (Alex Albon) 🇹🇭 retires his car, as Max Verstappen 🇳🇱 crashes and brings out the Safety Car.

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Safety Car in this lap! Last lap of the race to go!

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Safety car deployed for the final lap.

The result stands.

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Congratulations to:
- Charles Leclerc 🇲🇨
- George Russell 🇬🇧
- Sir Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧

Ferrari strategy fucked up.

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Sir Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 under investigation for yellow flag infringement

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The FIA explained why the race finished under the safety cars.

A full lap was not completed after the lapped cars were allowed to overtake. The “Safety car in this lap” message was caused by a software defect.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/fia-explains-safety-car-finish-at-british-gp/10836635/

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The whole Williams team is now under investigation for unlapping themselves under the Safety Car when not allowed

https://mastodon.social/@fiadocsbot/116868598426653057

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Carlos Sainz 🇪🇸 received a 1 lap penalty for unlapping himself. Not sure at all what that means.

Things I missed: Sir Lewis Hamilton 🇬🇧 received a reprimand for not slowing down for a yellow flag

https://www.fia.com/system/files/decision-document/2026_british_grand_prix_-_infringement_-_car_44_-_yellow_flags_-_failing_to_slow.pdf

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@EdwinG I could explain the Sainz thing, but it'd rob you of a minute of your life that's better off spent admiring a flower or something.

@mattmay I’m stuck in a public transportation service disruption. All I can see is concrete.

I understand the reasoning. It’s the application of the penalty that I don’t understand.

What’s 1 penalty lap? Is it a 90s time penalty?

@EdwinG Since the race is over, they just consider him as finishing one lap fewer than he did.

It's just a timing thing between when the safety car came out for Max and when Sainz crossed a timing line. He thought it put him a lap down, which meant he could pass the safety car and go around with other lapped cars, but in effect he was .99 laps back and thus NOT entitled to do that. None of which matters because he was out of the points either way.

See? Clear as mud.

@mattmay I see. I don’t think there’s any precedent for that penalty.