Daniil Kvyat has been relegated out of the points places for the second race in a row due to a post-race time penalty following a collision with a rival.
The Toro Rosso driver was given a five-second time penalty for a collision with Sergio Perez. He therefore falls from 10th to 12th place.The Racing Point driver said on his radio Perez moved close to him under the yellow flags which were showing because of Kevin Magnussen’s retirement at turn 12.
“Yes, we fucking took it,” exclaimed Kvyat on the slowing-down lap. However his rival was complaining about the move he made at turn 15 which damaged his front-left end plate.
“He came so close under the yellow flag and then he pushed me off,” said Perez. “Is that OK? He just broke my car.
“I lift for the yellow flag, he came really close to me, he just attacked me afterwards. And then into 15 he just pushed me off, came and crashed into me. I gave him enough space and he just pushed me off the track. He broke the front wing, suspension, he just crashed into me and I gave him a lot of room.”
“He didn’t lift under the yellow flag, attacked me straight away and crashed into me,” Perez added.
Kvyat was also penalised after the race in Mexico following a collision with Nico Hulkenberg.
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Jere (@jerejj)
3rd November 2019, 21:17
LOL, attempting to overtake under yellow flags – worse than attempting to set a meaningful lap time under yellows.
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
3rd November 2019, 21:31
bone to pick jere?
Can’t understand how is he still an f1 driver. Button came good in his 10th season, maybe that is what Kvyat needs.
Massa never came good and he raced forever, don’t be a massa.
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
3rd November 2019, 21:38
If you look at the 4 drivers for Red Bull and Toro Rosso, 3 of them other than kvyat have had a chance in a top car, and just verstappen has been getting podiums. Kvyat got the first one for Toro Rosso for the first time in around 12 years.
He’s looked far better than 2016 and 2017, so i think he should still be in F1. Just because he has had 2 incidents close together should not be a reason to be harsh on him like this.
If you have a look back at Verstappen in Italy and Belgium back to back, he was very poor in both. Verstappen is obviously far better, but an incident or two is not that bad for kvyat given that he’s looked pretty good in most races.
erikje
3rd November 2019, 22:16
He already is passed by Gasly.
I am afraid the torpedo is back.
Ivan B (@njoydesign)
3rd November 2019, 22:25
remind me please where did Gasly finish in the race
regs (@regs)
3rd November 2019, 22:18
That wasn’t under yellow flags. It was in Turn 15. Perez lost his car and went wide. Kvyat went ahead inside, but jumped on the curb. Perez quickly rolled back closing the apex, so Kvyat ended up in him. But Kvyat was on main line.
https://twitter.com/TOPPSNIEK/status/1191103188767780868
Ivan B (@njoydesign)
3rd November 2019, 22:29
Thanks for the video! Honestly, the penalty was again way too harsh. I have seen moves like this not being penalised way too many times.
faulty (@faulty)
4th November 2019, 1:21
Thanks for the video. TV coverage was dismal, as usual.
Yayra A (@xdugu19)
3rd November 2019, 21:22
The torpedo is back from his early season slumber
DAllein (@)
3rd November 2019, 21:28
He was just hiding in shadows for a perfect strike!
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
3rd November 2019, 21:31
He’s made a mistake in the last couple of races, but i do not understand why people use this name “torpedo” the whole time. It was Vettel who called him this in China 2016 when he did a perfectly legitimate move on Vettel. Vettel was just stroppy about it. This name was used for an unfair reason but it seems to have stuck. This word is overkill in most of his incidents anyway. It is just something he got called for no good reason.
Ivan B (@njoydesign)
3rd November 2019, 21:48
if you were called names undeservedly, come back and deserve them.
Ivan B (@njoydesign)
3rd November 2019, 21:52
honestly, in Russian it sounds a lot funnier.
And by the way, I’m still happy with his race more or less. Hards were a mistake, he didn’t make them last, and then there was this slow pitstop, and he still managed to get into position to fight for points.
anon
3rd November 2019, 22:04
@thegianthogweed, because there have been many who have, rather tirelessly and thoughtlessly, repeated the meme thinking that it was funny, which ensured that it stuck and gave him a reputation that probably isn’t really that representative. There have been years where other drivers were more accident prone, such as Magnussen, but in his case he’s been labelled a “hard racer” rather than being accident prone.
Consider it akin to, say, the wearisome “has Maldonado crashed again” meme – the irony being that, in a number of years, there were actually more cases of other drivers crashing into him than of Maldonado hitting others, but because Maldonado was labelled “a crasher”, it was easier to stick the blame onto him.
Jose Lopes da Silva
4th November 2019, 6:09
Like crahstappen, right?
Broke84 (@broke84)
3rd November 2019, 21:41
I love the typo at the end “this article will be investigated”.
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
3rd November 2019, 22:53
Yea that is funny. Will it get a 10 place grid penalty moving it 10 articles further down? :D
Ivan B (@njoydesign)
3rd November 2019, 21:55
By the way, another shoutout to the potato that is serving as race director. Not only we were not shown this episode in the TV feed (and still haven’t), there were so many battles that were so obviously happening if you looked at the timing screens, to never be shown, or maybe just the overtake itself in a brief replay… sigh…
faulty (@faulty)
4th November 2019, 1:27
Yes. I was looking at the splits and then they put their silly AWS graphics and ruin whatever little information they were providing.
Not only is the producer a potato, but a rather obnoxious one.
Homerlovesbeer (@homerlovesbeer)
3rd November 2019, 21:58
Lol Keith investigating his own articles now?
RocketTankski
3rd November 2019, 22:15
Doctor, Doctor, please, oh I’m going fast!
Stephen coleman (@sel1700)
4th November 2019, 7:00
Wouldn’t it have been nice to see on the broadcast. No shots of the crowd but no action either! These directors don’t have a clue. Plus I’m getting sick of Croft of constantly waffling on and on. Brundel is good but towards the end of the race he has to explain about blue flags. I mean if a person doesn’t know about them by that stage in the race what’s the point. They don’t explain how a throw in works every time you watch football.