Christian Horner joked that Max Verstappen’s fine for touching Lewis Hamilton’s car in parc ferme would be offset by his pole-position bonus. Verstappen was fined 50,000 euros by the FIA having been seen to handle the rear wing of the Mercedes W12 after the end of Sao Paulo Grand Prix qualifying. At a hearing the next morning, the FIA said this breach of the parc ferme regulation “has significant potential to cause harm”- although they stated it had not done so on this occasion. Ironically, however, the rear wing of Hamilton’s car ended up being the reason why Verstappen would end up with a pole-position bonus. The seven-time World Champion was 0.438sec faster than his Red Bull...
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