Buemi and Glock get grid penalties

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Sebastien Buemi and Timo Glock have each been handed penalties for impeding other drivers during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Buemi was given a three-place penalty for impeding Nico Rosberg and Timo Glock got a five-place penalty for holding up Sakon Yamamoto.

However the stewards decided against punishing Jarno Trulli or Lucas di Grassi for their collision during qualifying.

The stewards did not explain why Buemi and Glock received different penalties.

Following the penalties the grid is believed to be as follows:

Row 11. Mark Webber 1’45.778
Red Bull-Renault
2. Lewis Hamilton 1’45.863
McLaren-Mercedes
Row 23. Robert Kubica 1’46.100
Renault
4. Sebastian Vettel 1’46.127
Red Bull-Renault
Row 35. Jenson Button 1’46.206
McLaren-Mercedes
6. Felipe Massa 1’46.314
Ferrari
Row 47. Rubens Barrichello 1’46.602
Williams-Cosworth
8. Adrian Sutil 1’46.659
Force India-Mercedes
Row 59. Nico Hulkenberg 1’47.053
Williams-Cosworth
10. Fernando Alonso 1’47.441
Ferrari
Row 611. Jaime Alguersuari 1’48.267
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
12. Vitantonio Liuzzi 1’48.680
Force India-Mercedes
Row 713. Heikki Kovalainen 1’50.980
Lotus-Cosworth
14. Nico Rosberg 1’47.885
Mercedes
Row 815. Jarno Trulli 2’01.491
Lotus-Cosworth
16. Sebastien Buemi 1’49.209
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Row 917. Kamui Kobayashi 2’02.284
Sauber-Ferrari
18. Bruno Senna 2’03.612
HRT-Cosworth
Row 1019. Sakon Yamamoto 2’03.941
HRT-Cosworth
20. Timo Glock 1’52.049
Virgin-Cosworth
Row 1121. Michael Schumacher 1’47.874
Mercedes
22. Pedro de la Rosa 2’05.294
Sauber-Ferrari
Row 1223. Lucas di Grassi 2’18.154
Virgin-Cosworth
24. Vitaly Petrov
Renault

As penalties are applied in the order they are declared, Rosberg’s five-place penalty (for a gearbox change) has only dropped him from 12th to 14th.

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    22 comments on “Buemi and Glock get grid penalties”

    1. Right, well quite a few changes but would you look at that, Kovalainen in 13th place. That’s incredible!

      1. miguelF1O (@)
        29th August 2010, 0:58

        the whole world is against Richard Branson Timo was 17th now with all this changes 20th with rain or no rain virgin isnt getting 10th

        1. Exactly! that’s why he owns only one airline company? can you image? tut tut…

          … Unlucky is the word I’d use…

    2. could be interesting, half the pack is out of order :D

      1. yep, 2 Saubers, a Renault and both Mercedes all mixed in with the backmarkers.

    3. Didn’t Rosberg qualify 11th before penalties, not 12th.

      1. I think it was 12th as Schu outqualified him but just missed q3 meaning he was 11th and Ros 12th.

    4. “The stewards did not explain why Buemi and Glock received different penalties.”

      Because the FIA Random Penalty Generator (TM) has been in action again.

      1. True.

        Ridiculous how Trulli didn’t get a penalty, if blocking a persons hotlap is a penalty then how is taking them clean out not a penalty?

        1. Jarno was on a hot lap also. Was very smug of Schumacher to not back off before the start of the lap and just expect to breeze past the Lotus.

          1. Ridiculous how Trulli didn’t get a penalty, if blocking a persons hotlap is a penalty then how is taking them clean out not a penalty?

            But di Grassi had run deep into the first part of Stavelot and I suspect Trulli was convinced he was headed for the gravel or the wall, therefore he assumed the racing line. As di Grassi angled his car back towards the racing line they touched, so I don’t think either driver was at fault – as ridiculous as the incident seemed. :D Those were a crazy few moments on the track and it was a miracle no-one crashed! Great onboard from Michael though! :P

    5. “holding up Sakon Yamamoto”. Wow. Must have been going pretty slowly.

      1. haha love that!! must of bin going about 40mph

        1. I thought installation laps were quicker than Yamamoto’s flyers.

    6. right, done some betting online for this one… could win 60 quid or so. unlikely…

    7. I hope the fast players at the back don’t expect the ‘Moses treatment’. That is the slower must give way to them.

      Moses Treatment patented by Mr F Alonso.

      1. I was liking the whole ‘you shall not pass’ thing Trulli was puuting on Schumacher in Q1.

      2. “Mark, Lewis, Robert, Sebastian, Jenson, Felipe, Rubens, Adrian, Nico – Alonso is faster than you. Please confirm you understand.”

        1. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

        2. HounslowBusGarage
          28th August 2010, 23:49

          Brilliant!
          (Your comment is too short, perfect, pithy, exact, precise, funny, sarcastic, irrelevant, infantile . . .)

    8. HounslowBusGarage
      28th August 2010, 23:52

      Looking at the grid in only glancing detail, I am delighted that WEB and MAS seem to be in front of their respective team mates.
      The day of the Number Two’s?

    9. Yeah, how did Trulli escape a penalty for Causing and Avoidable Accident? Every angle showed he basically rammed DeGrassi off the road. When interviewed about it by SpeedTV, his galling answer was that DeGrassi had previously failed to let him by.

      Yamamoto’s time was only a little bit behind Senna’s. His cash-to-talent ratio is definitely better than some of the historic pay-hacks like Deletraz, Baumgartner, or Inoue. If he didn’t get blocked, maybe he makes Q2. OK, maybe not.

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