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Chandhok on Verstappen’s penalty: “One of the most basic rules you can break”
Max Verstappen failed to slow down when he drove past the yellow flags for Valtteri Bottas' crash on the final lap of qualifying.
Verstappen was awarded a three-place grid penalty which put him in a bad track position. This eventually resulted in a virtual race-ending puncture. Chandhok highlights the basic error.
"As a driver, you know that not slowing down for an incident and the resultant yellow flag is one of the most basic rules that you can break. This is the same from karting to club racing and up to F1 and really as soon as Max saw the Mercedes in the wall, he should have aborted the lap as there was no way he was going to be allowed to keep that time," Chandhok said in his DriveTribe column.
"Crucially, nobody was going to beat him either so he would have had pole position anyway from the first run. It was a silly error to make and one where there really isn’t any defence."
"That error would have big consequences as he – somewhat inevitably – got into a tangle at the opening sequence of corners and then got a puncture to fully ruin his race on a rare day when the Red Bull was a match for the opposition."