Round 5 post Qualifying penalty

Giuliano Alesi endured a difficult start to his home race weekend. The Frenchman collided with Louis Delétraz on the out lap of today’s FIA Formula 2 Qualifying which ended his session prematurely.

It was later found that Alesi misjudged the distance between himself and the Swiss driver when trying to overtake him on the first lap of the qualifying session. This resulted in him colliding with Delétraz and caused serious damage to both cars.

Although the Trident driver could not set a laptime during the session, he will still be allowed to start tomorrow’s Feature Race, albeit from the pit lane.