19/09/2025
NEWS STORY
Oscar Piastri has been given an official reprimand for failing to slow under a yellow flag in FP2
The flag was displayed at Marshal Post 1.2 and a green light was shown at light panel 3. Drivers had been instructed that if they see a green light they must take the action required under a yellow flag condition even if they had not been shown the yellow flag.
In this case, Piastri had passed Marshal Post 1.2 when the yellow flag was shown for the first time but was able to see the green light at light panel 3.
The yellow flag was withdrawn less than one second after the green light became visible to the Australian.
Therefore technically a breach of the regulations had occurred however because of the mitigating circumstances the penalty imposed was reduced to a reprimand, consistent with previous similar incidents.
It is Piastri's first reprimand of the season.
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