Button and Kvyat Penalized for the USGP

Daniil Kvyat Copyright @ Wise Racing World
Daniil Kvyat Copyright @ Wise Racing World
Jenson Button (McLaren Mercedes) was penalized by the stewards for a gearbox change and will have to take a 5 grid penalty for today´s USGP in Austin. Qualifying went well for the british driver but unfortunately the penalty will drop him back from 7th to 12th on the starting grid. Daniil Kvyat was also penalized after the team reported a complete engine change for the russian driver being this his 7th enginge to the 5 engines allowed per season. The russian did not manage to get a good qualigying result as lied 14th before the penalty which will see him drop to last since the engine change has a 10 place grid penalty.

The provisional starting grid after penalties is the following:

Provisional Qualifying USGP 2014 Copyright @ Wise Racing World
Provisional Qualifying USGP 2014 Copyright @ Wise Racing World

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