Posthumous drive-through
20 seconds penalty: this is the decision of the Stewards regarding the repeated track cuts by Charles Leclerc during the last lap.
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The Ferrari driver spun at Turn 3 and hit the barriers damaging his SF-26. Leclerc restarted and finished the race in sixth position battling with Russell and Verstappen.
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The penalty – a ‘posthumous’ drive-through – demotes Leclerc to eighth position, Lewis Hamilton moves up to sixth and Franco Colapinto to seventh. Now Leclerc is at -41 from Andrea Kimi Antonelli in the drivers’ standings.
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