Yuki Tsunoda has been handed a three-place grid penalty for blocking Lewis Hamilton in Dutch GP qualifying – an incident that Toto Wolff believes caused the Mercedes driver’s Q2 exit and 13th-place grid spot.
Tsunoda and Aston Martin's Lance Stroll were both summoned to the stewards in the wake of the rain-hit Zandvoort qualifying to explain separate incidents of alleged blocking against Hamilton's Mercedes in Q2 and Q1 respectively.While Stroll's impeding was found by stewards not to have been sufficient enough to reach the threshold of a penalty, Tsunoda's was - and the Japanese driver will drop from 14th to 17th on Sunday's grid as a result.
' 'Penalise, penalise' urges Wolff on drivers who block othersThe Mercedes team principal said there should be more of a deterrent for drivers who disrupt the qualifying sessions of rivals.'I think the answer is penalise. Penalise, penalise,' he said. 'If you know you don't go prison when you cheat a tax, you cheat a tax.'So I don't understand why these things are not penalised. It was a clear impeding with some drivers in Q1.
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