Aston Martin and Alpine fined for incidents in the pit lane · RaceFans

Aston Martin and Alpine teams were each fined € 5,000 after their cars were involved in potentially unsafe incidents during qualifying at Monza.

Both incidents occurred within a few moments when several drivers left the pits at the same time at the end of the second quarter.

Aston Martin released Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll’s cars simultaneously while Lewis overtook Hamilton in his Mercedes. Vettel therefore switched to the fast lane, which caused Hamilton to swerve.

“Several cars were released into the pit lane at the same time,” stated the commissioners. “The driver of car five [Vettel] was released by his team, but the team’s other car was also released at the same time.

“This led to Auto 5 moving into the fast lane when Auto 44” [Hamilton] passed and car 44 had to take evasive action to avoid an incident. “

The group of cars then approached the alpine pit where Esteban Ocon was released. The crew member leading him out stepped backwards into the fast lane in front of Vettel.

“Although the stewards accept that members of other teams have also stepped this far into the pit lane, they did not obstruct any other car and were not in a particularly dangerous situation,” stated the stewards. “In the case of Auto 31 [Ocon] the stewards determined that this was an “unsafe act”. “

Neither team managed to get any of their drivers into the final lap of qualifying.

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