Alpine and Australian driver Jack Doohan has picked up a 10-second penalty after the F1 Chinese GP Sprint following a collision with Sauber driver Gabriel Bortoleto.
A last lap collision at turn 14
Throughout the F1 Chinese GP Sprint race, Bortoleto was involved in a good few wheel-to-wheel tussles, while Doohan got a nice bump from Liam Lawson at one point as the Kiwi passed him into the hairpin.
On the final lap, the 22-year-old Australian tried his own move for P17. However, this did not work out. From a long way back he got into the side of the Sauber, with Bortoleto spun around despite the Brazilian giving a lot of space.
Unsurprisingly the stewards took a dim view of it and awarded a penalty. He also got slapped with two penalty points on his licence.
Stewards decision
The Stewards heard from the driver of Car 7 (Jack Doohan), the driver of Car 5(Gabriel Bortoleto), team representatives and reviewed positioning/marshallingsystem data, video and in- car video evidence and determined as follows.
DOO attempted to overtake BOR on the inside of turn 14 but locked up at the apex of the corner and collided with BOR.
DOO suggested that he was in control of theovertake but the presence of the two Haas cars and the line they took compromised his overtake attempt.
First, as the car attempting to overtake, the responsibility was on DOO to ensure that it was done in a safe manner and in line with the regulations and the guidelines.
Secondly, applying the Driving Standards Guidelines, DOO did not have the right tothe corner at the apex and should have backed off here, because of the speed at which he approched the corner for the overtake and the resulting lockup and understeer, a collision was caused, for which DOO was predominantly to blame.
We therefore imposed the standard 10-second penalty with two penalty points.
