Raikkonen clipped the front-right tyre of Mazepin’s automobile whereas pulling away from his pit field when drivers pitted for slicks forward of the race restart in Hungary, with the harm forcing the Haas driver to retire from the race.
The stewards rapidly introduced that they’d be investigating the incident, and handed Raikkonen a 10-second time penalty for an unsafe pit launch.
The penalty triggered Raikkonen to fall again from eighth place after the race resumed to drop out of the factors, solely transferring again as much as P10 post-race after Sebastian Vettel was disqualified.
Alfa Romeo head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar defined after the race that the visitors mild system used within the workforce’s pit field had advised Raikkonen to go by mistake, ensuing within the contact.
“With Kimi, doing his pit cease when everybody was coming in on the identical time, we had a difficulty with our visitors mild system that it meant that it simply did not work nicely,” Pujolar defined.
“He left when Mazepin was coming in, sadly. It simply confirmed like inexperienced, crimson, inexperienced, after which for him it was inexperienced, nevertheless it ought to have stayed crimson. So our system did not work correctly.”
“We have been OK till the second begin once we got here within the pits, and I used to be launched and I hit the opposite automobile, and I bought penalised for that,” Raikkonen added.
Fernando Alonso, Alpine A521, battles with Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W12, forward of Kimi Raikkonen, Alfa Romeo Racing C41
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“From that time just about, our race was accomplished. It is a disgrace, we have been in place to attain good factors.”
Raikkonen was not alone in touchdown an in-race penalty as teammate Antonio Giovinazzi was hit with a 10-second cease/go penalty for rushing within the pit lane.
The stewards famous of their post-race bulletin that Giovinazzi had been caught rushing at 105.6 km/h, far past the occasion restrict of 80 km/h. The Italian driver was the final categorized finisher in thirteenth.
The Hungary race weekend noticed Alfa Romeo slip to ninth place within the constructors’ championship as Williams completed seventh and eighth with its automobiles, selecting up 10 factors.
Pujolar was accepting of the penalties after the race, saying that Alfa Romeo needed to “take care of it”, however felt there was loads of time to nonetheless catch Williams within the combat for P8 within the groups’ standings.
“It might be higher if we’re forward, however we’ve bought many races to do but,” Pujolar mentioned.
“I believe if we qualify now, if we are able to put each automobiles in Q2 now this race, after the shutdown, we are able to try this in all probability. At one level, or on a couple of events, I believe we are able to rating factors.”