Marko Hanželic
Commissioners were questioned in the morning Valtteria Bottas, Carlos Sainz in Max Verstappen due to ignoring the yellow flag completely at the end of qualifying when the tire blew up Pierre Gasly, being Verstappen as to the whole situation in an allegedly greater offense, as in his case "Plapolala" double yellow flag.
After several hours of hearings and decisions, the Commissioners decided that Bottas allocate three penalty moves along the starting ladder. The Finn said at the interrogation that he had not seen the yellow flag and that he had not stepped off the gas. It was for Mercedes Bottas the punishment is otherwise a good sign, as it in any case meant that he would receive it as well Verstappen.
This also happened a few moments later, and to an even greater extent as expected, so it will Dutchman at the start of the race for the Qatar Grand Prix regressed by five places and will thus start from the 7th starting position. The Commissioners justified the decision by stating that it was standard penalty in case the racer does not comply double yellow flags, despite the fact that the race management did not provide information about the double yellow flag to the team Red Bull.
Unlike Bottas and Verstappn, however, he did not receive a penalty Carlos Sainz, as it was found on the basis of telemetry that, unlike the other two "Sinners" reduced speed. Today at 15 pm we will definitely have an extremely interesting race, in which the undisputed first favorite to win, of course Lewis Hamilton, but we'll see what we can do Verstappen do from the background.
