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Cadillac has lost what would have been its first points finish in Formula 1 after Sergio Perez received a post-race penalty.
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Perez was given a 10-second time penalty for failing to line up correctly in his grid box ahead of the restart. The penalty drops him to 15th place in the final classification and promotes Fernando Alonso to 10th place.
Alonso has therefore scored Aston Martin’s first point of the season.
This was Perez’s second penalty for the same infringement during the race. He received a drive-through penalty earlier in the race for lining up incorrectly at the start.
On that occasion he incorrectly took the position which would have been occupied by Gabriel Bortoleto, but the Audi driver started from the pit lane. The stewards ruled a stiffer penalty was deserved for that breach because Perez started two places higher than he should have.
“Car 11 [Perez] started from position 16 instead of position 18,” they 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.”
Perez was also reprimanded for not positioning his car correctly when he performed a practice start before the race began. “The driver admitted that he had made a practice start in the wrong position,” the stewards noted.
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