Haas driver Ollie Bearman, Williams’ Alex Albon, and Racing Bulls’ Liam Lawson have every obtained five-second time penalties for a myriad of incidents through the eventful Dash on the Miami Worldwide Autodrome.
After a interval of heavy rainfall brought on a delayed begin, everybody on the grid began on intermediate tyres. Nevertheless, the floor rapidly started to dry out – though there aren’t any mandated pit stops in a Dash, most of the drivers had been compelled into the pits to change onto slick tyres.
As Haas completed altering Bearman’s tyres, he was launched into the pit lane, immediately into the trail of Kick Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg. The German then had “to brake and take evasive motion”, as detailed within the Stewards’ report of the incident.
The investigation used video proof to find out {that a} five-second penalty was an appropriate consequence for the unsafe launch, dropping Bearman from P8 (the place he had claimed the ultimate level of the Dash) to P14.
