The phrasing of official communications from the FIA’s stewards tends to be deliberately dry and factual, but a note of schoolmasterish anger was manifest in the document announcing and explaining a €30,000 fine for Racing Bulls after Liam Lawson’s breakdown forced Formula 1 practice to be red-flagged in Canada.
Lawson’s car halted with a hydraulic problem within 10 minutes of the sole practice session for this sprint weekend getting under way, but the marshals were unable to move it. That in itself presents a problem at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, an older venue that doesn’t have the space to accommodate the perimeter roads expected of newer tracks, complicating the task of removing stricken cars.
