During the Spanish Grand Prix qualifying held this afternoon, several drivers complained about being hindered during their fast laps. Button complained about a Williams, R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen about Gutierrez’s Sauber, and Webber about Massa’s Ferrari.<\/p>\n
The last two incidents have been investigated by the FIA stewards – including Alan Jones, who is serving as the driver steward this weekend – and they have decided to penalize Esteban Gutierrez and Felipe Massa with a three-place grid penalty for tomorrow’s Grand Prix because they unnecessarily impeded another driver who was on a fast lap.<\/p>\n
Massa, who qualified in 6th position, will ultimately start tomorrow from the 9th position – allowing Romain Grosjean, Mark Webber, and Sergio P\u00e9rez to each gain a position. Gutierrez qualified in 16th position and will therefore start from the 19th position on the grid tomorrow. This allows Bottas, Maldonado, and van der Garde to each gain a place.<\/p>\n
From our special correspondent in Barcelona<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Felipe Massa and Esteban Gutierrez were penalized by the FIA stewards for impeding drivers during the qualifying session this afternoon at the Circuit de Catalunya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":39652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[83,1195],"class_list":["post-17399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-penalite"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n