Cadillac Loses First F1 Point After Perez 10-Second Monaco Penalty
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Updated · The Race · Jun 7
Cadillac Loses First F1 Point After Perez 10-Second Monaco Penalty
3 articles · Updated · The Race · Jun 7
Summary
Sergio Perez was dropped from 10th to 15th after stewards imposed a post-race 10-second penalty for lining up outside his box at a late standing restart, wiping out Cadillac's first Formula 1 points finish.
Video evidence showed Perez's front-right wheel was outside the grid box, and stewards applied the standard sanction after reviewing the incident following the race.
That ruling also overturned Perez's provisional recovery drive after Nico Hulkenberg's separate 10-second penalty had lifted him into the top 10; Perez had already served a drive-through for stopping in Gabriel Bortoleto's vacant grid slot.
Fernando Alonso inherited 10th place and gave Aston Martin-Honda its first point, while Bortoleto moved to 11th ahead of George Russell, Hulkenberg and Franco Colapinto.
The setback came in Cadillac's sixth race, with Perez saying a points finish had seemed beyond the team's expectations this early in its F1 entry.