Overview
- At the Monza restart, Racing Bulls stand-in Yuki Tsunoda initially approached the wrong grid slot then moved into his correct box at an angle, prompting Race Director Rui Marques to call an extra formation lap.
- FIA stewards reviewed the incident and concluded Tsunoda was inside his grid box, that the extra formation lap resulted from the Race Director's caution rather than direct driver action, and therefore took no further action.
- Article B5.9.4 says a driver judged to have caused an extra formation lap must enter the pit lane and restart from there and failure to do so normally brings a stop-and-go penalty that converts to a 30-second post-race penalty if unserved.
- Audi filed a formal notice of its intention to appeal within the required window, preserving a 96-hour period to decide whether to proceed to a full appeal that could alter the classification and promote Audi's Gabriel Bortoleto into the points.
- Stewards flagged a procedural gap because Racing Bulls and Tsunoda were not told they were being treated as the cause of the extra formation lap and suggested the FIA consider a process to notify teams so they can comply with B5.9.4.