George Russell has incurred a five-place grid penalty for the British Grand Prix after ignoring yellow flags – following an incident involving his Williams team-mate Nicholas Latifi. At the end of Q1, Latifi spun off and Russell advanced to Q2 with the 13th fastest time, going on to claim a provisional P15 on the start line for Sunday’s race. But immediately, the Englishman was suspected of not having slowed down sufficiently for the yellow flags warning of Latifi’s spin, leading him to issue an impassioned plea over the team radio that he had in fact done so – claiming his car’s telemetry would back that up. However, the FIA stewards deemed that Russell had not shown enough...
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