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Kimi Antonelli has been cleared by to the stewards, after being investigated for allegedly impeding Lando Norris during Chinese Grand Prix Sprint Qualifying.
After Mercedes’s brilliant front row lockout at the Chinese Grand Prix, Kimi Antonelli was summoned to the stewards for allegedly impeding McLaren’s Lando Norris in SQ2.
The incident happened while Antonelli was going slowly on the inside of Turn 1, which caused Norris to back off.
The McLaren driver then told his team over the radio: “I was going to push that lap.”
Ultimately the stewards decided not to penalise Antonelli, since they determined Norris was not on a flying lap.
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“The driver of Car 1 (Lando Norris) told us that he was on a ‘pushing warm up lap’ and not on a push lap,” the stewards’ statement read.
“In other words, he was not actively seeking to set a meaningful lap time when Car 12 (Kimi Antonelli) came out of the pit lane and onto the track.
“Had Car 1 been on a push lap then, given the position of Car 12 on the track, Car 12 would have unnecessarily impeded Car 1.
“In the light of the clear position taken by the driver of Car 1 that he was not impeded by Car 12 as he was not seeking to set a meaningful lap time, we took no further action,” the statement concluded.
