QUARTARARO’S BRITISH GP PENALTY TRACED TO A TYRE-PRESSURE SET-UP MISTAKE

Fabio Quartararo was stripped of the points he initially scored at last weekend’s British Grand Prix after being hit with a 16-second penalty that dropped him to 16th place. The penalty is typically applied when a rider has not completed enough laps with tyre pressures above the Michelin safety threshold, but that explanation didn’t fit the Sunday situation. According to the reports, the sanction came from a set-up-related mistake rather than a failure to meet the tyre-pressure lap requirement. The articles explain that the error triggered the penalty despite the fact Quartararo’s tyre pressures were not the reason for the breach. As a result, the Yamaha rider’s race result was adjusted after the incident, costing him the points he had originally earned on track.