Russell and Antonelli handed grid penalties after pit-lane infringement
- Sebastian Alston
- Apr 12
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 14

George Russell and Kimi Antonelli have both been handed a one-place grid penalty for tomorrow's Bahrain GP.
The decision sees Russell demoted from P2 to P3, whilst Antonelli goes from P4 to P5.
It comes after the Mercedes pair were sent into the fast lane in the pitlane before a restart time had been set after Esteban Ocon's crash brought out the red flag.
It had been Mercedes' best qualifying of the year, with Antonelli onto the second row of the grid for the first time in his young F1 career.
It sees Charles Leclerc promoted to the front row and Pierre Gasly up to P4, for his best start since last year's Las Vegas GP.
Charles will be looking to challenge into turn 1 and use the fresh upgrades on his Ferrari, whilst Pierre is in a great position to give Alpine their first points of the season.
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