Lance Stroll's shock maiden F1 pole position has been confirmed by Turkish GP stewards after the Racing Point driver was cleared in a post-qualifying investigation over yellow flags. Stewards looked after qualifying at whether Stroll had slowed sufficiently for single-waved yellow flags in the closing minutes of his pole-winning Q3 when team-mate Sergio Perez went off the track at Turn Seven. But after speaking to Stroll and assessing telemetry data from Racing Point, they ruled that the Canadian had followed the regulations. "By telemetry, Car 18 clearly came off the throttle, coasted into the corner, and then accelerated when clear of the incident," read a stewards' statement....
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