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The FIA announced that Lewis Hamilton will not be penalised for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix Free Practice 3 yellow flags incident.
Lewis Hamilton has been summoned to the stewards one hour before the start of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix Qualifying for allegedly “not respecting double waved yellow flags/lights at 17:22”.
After some deliberation the FIA announced Lewis will not be penalised.
“The Race Director reported to the Stewards that the double yellow flag warning on the FIA Marshalling System was activated at Light Panel Number 6 accidentally, for less than 1 second,” the FIA statement read.
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“As the on-board video of Car 44 (to be released by the Commercial Rights Holder following this Decision) clearly shows, there was no yellow flag displayed, no yellow lights were displayed to that driver and the yellow warning light was not visible on the driver’s steering wheel.
“Unlike other incidents this year, there was no yellow flag or yellow light displayed to the driver (the driver already being well into the marshalling sector when the system was briefly activated) hence no breach of the regulations has occurred.”
Lewis and Mercedes are still being investigated for “unnecessary impeding” Nikita Mazepin in FP3.
