Why was Lando Norris only given a five-second penalty for Oscar Piastri crash?

Lando Norris appeared to get distant with a lenient punishment astatine the Canadian Grand Prix aft causing a collision with McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri with 4 laps remaining.

Norris was attempting to walk Piastri for 4th spot erstwhile helium misjudged the region to his teammate, clipped the backmost of the pb McLaren and damaged his ain suspension against the pit wall.

The clang saw Norris discontinue from the contention connected the spot, with the British driver accepting afloat blasted for the incident during media interviews aft the race.

The stewards investigated the collision aboriginal connected Sunday evening, agreed Norris was afloat to blame, but lone gave him a five-second punishment -- which made nary quality to his contention effect arsenic helium was classified 18th, 4 laps down the leaders.

The stewards besides opted against awarding Norris immoderate punishment points connected his ace licence for the collision -- a determination that is wholly near to the stewards' ain discretion.

Although the incidental ended Norris' contention and dropped him retired of the points, helium appeared to get distant lightly for the collision arsenic the stewards' punishment had nary worldly interaction connected his effect oregon punishment points quota going forward.

The modular punishment for causing a collision is 10 seconds and 2 punishment points, but the stewards' connection relating to the Norris incidental said their determination had been much lenient due to the fact that it had not impacted immoderate different driver's result.

"The Stewards determined that the operator of Car 4 [Norris] was solely to blasted for the collision. Because the collision had nary contiguous and evident sporting consequence, we imposed a 5 2nd clip post-race clip punishment connected Car 4," they said successful a statement.

Time penalties for drivers that neglect to decorativeness a contention are usually converted into grid penalties astatine the adjacent race, but due to the fact that Norris completed implicit 90% of the Canadian Grand Prix, helium was officially "classified" successful the results. That meant the stewards could lone contented a clip punishment and not a grid punishment for the adjacent circular successful Austria.

However, the incidental could person a important interaction connected Norris' rubric hopes aft Piastri extended his pb astatine the apical of the standings by 12 points, meaning it present stands astatine 22 successful total.