Max Verstappen, penalized by one place, loses his Qatar GP pole position to George Russell

“Unusually, specifies the FIA ​​document, This incident took place while a car was not on a timed lap. If this had been the case for car 63 (Russell), the penalty would undoubtedly have been the usual three places on the grid. But as a mitigating factor, it was evident that the driver of car 63 had clear visibility of car 1 and that neither car was on a timed lap. »