George Russell has been punished after he was investigated for an unsafe act after retiring from the Canadian Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
During an entertaining, high-octane battle with Kimi Antonelli, the Mercedes driver suffered a heartbreaking power unit failure as his W17 ground to a halt almost midway through the 68-lap race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The incident occurred while Russell was running in the lead and looking to close the gap in the championship to the young Italian.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
But his retirement left his team-mate a clear route to victory at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, who subsequently extended his lead in the F1 drivers’ championship from 18 points to 43.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In his anguish, the crestfallen Russell threw his headrest from his car, something the stewards took a dim view of as it landed on the track, with the British driver called before them after the race in Montreal concluded.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The officials felt it created a potentially dangerous situation and, as a result, they have handed the six-time grand prix winner a \u20ac5,000 fine, which has been suspended for 12 months, so long as a similar incident does not occur.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Russell expressed his “embarrassment” at his actions, with the FIA decision document stating: “The Stewards heard from the driver of Car 63, the team representative and reviewed video evidence.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“The driver explained that he was extremely frustrated having failed to finish the race, and expressed his embarrassment at what subsequently followed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“He apologised to the stewards for his action and acknowledged that it did not set a good example and offered to apologise publicly. The Stewards acknowledged this and accepted his apology.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell has been punished after he was investigated for an unsafe act after retiring from the Canadian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22339,22342,22340,22343,22341,22338,1817,22336,19531,50,22337,22335],"class_list":["post-59295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-montreal","tag-motorsport","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}