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Campos Racing’s Formula 2 drivers have been handed double grid penalties for impeding offences in qualifying at the Red Bull Ring.
Arvid Lindblad was found to have obstructed DAMS driver Jak Crawford and MP Motorsport’s Oliver Goethe between turns six and seven, while his team-mate Pepe Marti impeded AIX Racing’s Cian Shields at the same location.
Both drivers will not only get a three-place grid penalty each for the sprint race, but the same penalty for the feature race.
That means Marti will start fifth on the sprint race’s reversed grid and 12th the next day having qualified ninth, while Lindblad is set to line up 15th both times as he was only 12th fastest. AIX’s Joshua Duerksen is promoted onto the sprint race front row.
Crawford, Goethe and Shields were also involved in other incidents, with Shields being reprimanded for crossing the pit entry’s white line and DAMS getting fined €500 (£427) for releasing Crawford into the path of Goethe in the pitlane. All three ended up outside of the top 14.
In practice, DAMS’ Kush Maini had been warned for impeding Prema’s Sebastian Montoya at turn nine, Rodin Motorsport’s Alex Dunne was fined €100 for exceeding the pitlane speed limit and Hitech GP’s Luke Browning had all of his laptimes deleted due to being unable to provide a sufficiently sized fuel sample post-session.
ART Grand Prix’s Tuukka Taponen also got a €100 pitlane speeding fine, having exceeded the limit by a tiny 0.062mph in FIA Formula 3 practice.