News Details

Sainz confirmed P3 after DRS use scrutiny

Carlos Sainz has been confirmed in third place at the Brazilian Grand Prix following scrutiny over his use of DRS, marking McLaren's first podium in over five years. Sainz rose to fourth place amid the late-race drama at Interlagos, but was provisionally promoted into P3 after Lewis Hamilton was hit with a five-second time penalty for contact with Alexander Albon on the penultimate lap. This dropped Hamilton from P3 to P7, promoting Sainz onto the podium, but the Spaniard's result remained provisional as the FIA looked into a number of possible DRS usages through the double waved yellow flags called late in the race. However, McLaren has now confirmed that Sainz's podium is final, marking...
Full Story »
6y ago from Crash.net 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Sainz's Brazilian GP podium confirmed

Carlos Sainz's first podium finish in Formula 1 was confirmed after an...
6y ago from GPFans.com

McLaren back on podium: Sainz's third confirmed

Carlos Sainz's first F1 podium finish has officially been confirmed at the...
6y ago from SkySports.com

Sainz's first Formula 1 podium confirmed

After a nervous wait, McLaren's Carlos Sainz has been confirmed as the P3...
6y ago from PlanetF1.com

Hamilton penalised, Sainz promoted to Brazil GP podium

Brazilian Grand Prix – Lewis Hamilton has been handed a five-second...
6y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

David Malukas tops 175MPH in IndyCar’s opening...

Just five days after the opening round of the 2026 IndyCar season,...

Chip Ganassi praises current health of IndyCar

Long-time team owner Chip Ganassi feels IndyCar is currently in one of...
20h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal to battle it out with Man City for £48m...

Arsenal are interested in signing the Como attacker Jesus Rodriguez at the...
58m ago from CaughtOffside.com

Martin Odegaard among 8 players Arsenal are...

Martin Odegaard has surprisingly emerged as one of the players Arsenal are...
58m ago from SportsKeeda.com

'Don’t really care about what he says' –...

Arsenal’s 1-0 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion might not have been a...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

CaughtOffside's Transfer Fit rating explained: Michael...

Transfers are a big part of football, and it's every bit as chaotic and...
3h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.