Article To news overview © Haas Haas' Nikita Mazepin has been given his first F1 penalty point after stewards found he ignored blue flags during the Portuguese GP. Mazepin was given the penalty point for blocking Red Bull's Sergio Perez through five blue flags, including staying on the racing line through Turn 3 as the Mexican, then the race leader, attempted to pass the Haas driver. Perez got on the radio to call the Russian a 'f**king idiot', with the stewards promptly investigating the incident. A short investigation later, Mazepin was given a five second time penalty. This had no bearing on his final result, as he was over a minute behind the rest of the field at the time. "The...
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