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Romain Grosjean and Jolyon Palmer will start at the back of the grid for tomorrow's Chinese Grand Prix, as both were handed five-place grid penalties and 3 penalty points on their licenses.
At the end of Q1, Antonio Giovinazzi rounded the final corner to complete his lap but never made the line as he spun out and hit the barrier hard, leaving his Sauber stranded in the middle of the circuit.
Many cars passed the incident, but as double yellow flags were being waved, cars were to slow down significantly or otherwise face the consequences. The stewards have decided that both Grosjean and Palmer failed to recognise the flags, and have handed them spots on the back row of the grid.
This means that Max Verstappen and Esteban Ocon, who qualified nineteenth and twentieth, will now line-up on tomorrow's grid seventeenth and eighteenth.
So apppatently I made no effort to slow down and didn't abandon the lap... data shows a different point of view. Btw didn't even open my DRS pic.twitter.com/ONsbzb62hT
— Romain Grosjean (@RGrosjean) April 8, 2017
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Login to replyf1fan0101
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A lot of quick cars at the back of the grid, RB/Haas/Ren/FI .. Will be interesting to see how they do
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Indeed. Verstappen should have little problem climbing back up, but the rest will have to battle it out.