Cadillac has been denied what would have been its first Formula 1 points finish after Sergio Perez received a post-race penalty.
Perez was handed a 10-second time penalty for failing to line up correctly in his grid box ahead of a restart. The sanction dropped him to 15th in the final classification and elevated Fernando Alonso into 10th place, giving Aston Martin its first point of the season.
This was Perez’s second penalty for the same infringement during the race. Earlier he served a drive-through penalty for lining up incorrectly at the race start.
On that earlier occasion he occupied the slot that should have been taken by Gabriel Bortoleto, although Bortoleto began from the pit lane. The stewards said a harsher penalty was appropriate because Perez effectively started two places higher than he should have.
“Car 11 [Perez] started from position 16 instead of position 18,” the stewards noted. “In Monaco, two places on the grid is a very significant advantage. Therefore the penalty needs to reflect this, when compared to other false start incidents including being in the wrong position at other tracks where the advantage may not have been as significant.”
The stewards also reprimanded Perez for performing a practice start from the wrong position before the race began. “The driver admitted that he had made a practice start in the wrong position,” they added.
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