Huge FIA penalty verdict announced after Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri incident at British GP

Oscar Piastri, Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, British GP, 2025 — Photo: © IMAGO

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Huge FIA penalty verdict announced after Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri incident at British GP

Max Verstappen lost out on the safety car restart

Sheona Mountford F1 Journalist

Motorsport journalist working in F1 since 2024.

Sunday 6 July 2025 17:11 Updated: 16:44

The FIA have announced a penalty for McLaren F1 star Oscar Piastri after a safety car infringement that involved Max Verstappen at the British Grand Prix.

On the second safety car restart at Silverstone, Piastri slowed down suddenly under the safety car with the incident causing confusion for Verstappen.

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The four-time world champion accelerated because he thought Piastri was ready to go on the safety car restart, but Verstappen was mistaken and then suffered a major spin after the restart which demoted him down to P11.

As a result, the stewards did not take kindly to Piastri's move and slammed the McLaren star with a 10-second time penalty, which could prove detrimental to his chances of a race victory.

Will McLaren appeal Piastri penalty?

Zak Brown revealed to Sky Sports on the pit wall that the team were debating appealing the penalty, where he said: "We're debating that here on the pit wall. That was a bit of a late Safety Car call in.

"The leader controls the race. I think it looked a little bit more dramatic on tv than we saw on telemetry."

"I think you also had Max accelerating because he thought Oscar was about ready to go. A combination of both."

If Piastri's penalty is maintained, the Aussie will have to extend at least 10 seconds over his team-mate Lando Norris to maintain the race victory, but otherwise can only hope for a second place finish at best.

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