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Vergne given five-second post-race penalty for Grosjean incident

Toro Rosso’s Jean-Eric Vergne has been handed a five-second post-race penalty for his collision with Lotus’s Romain Grosjean during Sunday’s 2014 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix, dropping him from ninth to tenth in the results. The incident in question occurred on Lap 51 of the race as Vergne banged into the side of Grosjean’s Renault-powered machine as he forcefully made his way past at Turn 1. The Lotus driver ended up running off the road and losing further positions.“The driver of car 25 (Vergne) is considered to be predominantly at fault for the contact with car 8 (Grosjean) in turn 1 and the consequent forcing of car 8 off the track,” read a...
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