Three-place penalty for the principality ends troubled weekend
Sunday 14 May 2017 18:13, UK
McLaren's Stoffel Vandoorne has been given a three-place grid penalty for the Monaco GP after crashing with Felipe Massa in Barcelona.
The 25-year-old collided with the Williams driver in Turn One in Sunday's GP in Barcelona, with the incident ending up with Vandoorne's car beached in the gravel.
Massa had to take an extra pit stop and ended the race in 13th.
After reviewing the incident, the FIA decided that Vandoorne was at fault and he has been given a three-place grid penalty for the next race in Monaco in addition to two penalty points on his racing licence.
After the highs of Fernando Alonso's out-of-the-blue top-eight qualifying result, Sunday provided more doom and gloom for McLaren as they are now the only team who have failed to pick up any points in the first five races.
Although Spaniard Alonso finished the race for the first time this year, he was 132th, outside the points.
Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton won Sunday's Spanish GP, ahead of Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel, who now remains only six points ahead of Hamilton in the drivers' championship.
Don't miss the final word on the Spanish GP in the F1 Report on Wednesday at 8.30pm on Sky F1. Leading F1 journalist Peter Windsor joins Natalie Pinkham and Marc Priestley to look back at all the Barcelona action.
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