George Russell has been handed a 5-place grid penalty for failing to slow for a yellow flag during today's qualifying session. Ironically the yellow was the result of his teammate, Nicholas Latifi spinning off at Luffield in the closing moments of Q1. On hearing that he was under investigation, Russell insisted he was innocent, telling his team to look at the trace. The stewards disagreed. The stewards, in addition to hearing from Russell and a team representative, reviewed the relevant video, radio, telemetry and marshalling system evidence. Russell explained to the stewards that he only saw the double yellow flag signal at Turn 7 in his peripheral vision and believed it was just a single...
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