Formula One world championship leader Max Verstappen will have a three-place grid drop at the Russian Grand Prix (September 26) after stewards ruled he was mainly to blame for a collision with title rival Lewis Hamilton at Monza yesterday.
Verstappen leads Hamilton by five points in the championship after 14 of the scheduled 22 races.
The stewards also gave Verstappen two penalty points.
The stewards said in a statement that they had found “the driver of Car 33 (Verstappen) was predominantly to blame for the collision with Car 44 (Hamilton) at Turn Two”.
“At the 50m board before Turn One, Car 44 was significantly ahead of Car 33. Car 33 braked late and started to move alongside Car 44, although at no point in the sequence does Car 33 get any further forward than just behind the front wheel of Car 44,” it added.