Grid drop penalties for MP Motorsport duo

MP Motorsport pair Jordan King and Mahaveer Raghunathan have both been handed three-place grid drop penalties, following an infringement in today’s FIA Formula 2 Qualifying, at Spa-Francorchamps.

Having examined video evidence and summed and heard the driver and the team representative, the stewards determined that neither King, nor Raghunathan, slowed down sufficiently under yellow flag conditions.

King - who had qualified 8th - will now start from 11th, and Raghunathan - who had qualified 18th - will now start from 19th, in tomorrow’s Feature Race.

Meanwhile, Callum Ilott has been given permission to start the Feature Race from the back of the grid, having failed to set a time during today’s Qualification, due to a mechanical failure.