Overview
- FIA stewards disqualified Gabriel Bortoleto on Saturday after post-race checks found his engine intake air pressure exceeded the 4.8 barA limit as measured by two approved sensors downstream of the intake cooler.
- Audi told stewards the spike happened on one lap due to higher than expected temperatures and said it then corrected the setting, but the car must meet the limit at all times under the rules.
- Bortoleto’s 11th-place sprint finish was erased, which moved Haas driver Esteban Ocon up to 11th but did not change the points-paying order.
- Nico Hulkenberg did not start the sprint after a power-unit fire on his lap to the grid, then later reached Q2 in qualifying and is set to start 11th for the grand prix.
- Hours after the sprint decision, Bortoleto joined qualifying but exited in Q1 with smoke reported from his Audi and is set to start 22nd for the race.