Max Verstappen telemetry provides new clear evidence in controversial penalty

PALMER: Was Verstappen’s Turn 1 penalty deserved?

Former F1 driver and F1 TV pundit Jolyon Palmer analyses the key moment in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix...

Jolyon Palmer is convinced that Max Verstappen did not intend to cross the first turn in Jeddah. Oscar Piastri had also expressed a similar opinion, regretting having been in front of him when he plunged into the corner. "He has to make this, I was in front of him" launched the Australian on the radio. For Palmer, Verstappen's actions were a "desperate attempt to hang on", as well as a reminisence of his controversial and contentious racing stan…

Red Bull Could Have 'Avoided' Penalty - Ecclestone

Red Bull has definitively decided against challenging Max Verstappen’s 5-second penalty by not requesting a ‘right of review’.The team theoretically had 96 hours to decide, but bosses Christian Horner, Dr Helmut Marko, and even Verstappen himself indicated at Jeddah that a protest was unlikely.But De Telegraaf newspaper reports that, while disagreeing with the penalty for skipping the first corner in an incident with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, the…

Max Verstappen telemetry provides new clear evidence in controversial penalty

Max Verstappen was not pushed off at Turn 1 at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix as he would never have made the corner.

Ex-Red Bull chief would have played Max Verstappen incident

Former Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley says he would have handled Max Verstappen’s Turn 1 incident at the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix differently.

Ex-Red Bull Sporting Director reveals precedent behind Max Verstappen Saudi F1 penalty

Former Red Bull Sporting Director Jonathan Whetley said the Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri Turn 1 clash in the Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix resembles a precedent set in Austin last year. The new Sauber Team Principal was a spectator to Verstappen’s Turn 1, Lap 1 confrontation with eventual Saudi GP winner Oscar Piastri, who got a better launch than the Red Bull polesitter. In the stewards’ eyes, Piastri claimed the corner and after Verst…