Kimi Raikkonen has been given a 20-second penalty and two penalty points on his superlicence for a last-lap collision with Sebastian Vettel at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Raikkonen made contact with Vettel as the pair drove out of Turn 4 on the final lap of the race at the Red Bull Ring. The two former world champions were already out of the points.
« Obviously our wheels touched and off we went, » Raikkonen said after the race, before seeing the stewards. « Unfortunate end but it didn’t change much, because we were both out of the points, but I’ll have to see it from the outside.
« I saw him there, but I don’t know how we ended up touching. I don’t know if I move or he moved… I’ll have to see it. »
Both drivers visited the stewards after the race and they felt Raikkonen was to blame. The penalty — the time equivalent of a drive-through penalty — had no impact on his race result, as he still finished 16th in the final classification once it was applied.
The verdict read: « Exiting T5 RAI closed the door on VET, which caused a collision taking both cars off the track ».
Raikkonen’s penalty points means he now has six for the rolling 12-month period. Drivers get an automatic ban if they ever reach 12 points in that time frame.
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