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Originally Posted by dfox
George Russel had a 5 place grid penalty for a manhole cover destroying his car in 2019 Baku. His repair didn't involve quite as much as Sainz, so less penalty. He was racing for Williams at the time, but there's an obvious relationship between Merc and Williams.
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Are you sure about that penalty?
If I compare the qualifying results from f1 to the starting grid, there is no penalty that I can see:
qualifying:
https://www.formula1.com/en/results....ualifying.html
starting grid:
https://www.formula1.com/en/results....ting-grid.html
I remember the incident with that big cover (or better sad, 'a' incident), but as RUS was a backmarker then, I don't remember penalties or not of course.