- The British Grand Prix at Silverstone ended under the Safety Car on lap 52 out of 52 after a series of incidents.
- FIA said that the Race Control instruction: Safety Car in this lap was issued due to a software error, and it resulted in B5. 13.5 being applied. 13.5 was violated.
- Charles Leclerc was penalized for a collision; George Russell was penalized for another, and Lewis Hamilton—third, while the team of Kimi Antonelli, who won the sprint, was not penalized.
The British Grand Prix at Silverstone ended with the Safety Car on lap 52 out of 52, and the incident did not go through the final lap due to an error in the on-screen display. FIA explained that the instruction was caused by an internal software program error, which led to the instruction being delayed for the stewards.
According to the material, the Safety Car was triggered due to an incident involving Max Verstappen: he had a puncture on lap 48, which caused him to stop on the track at Stowe. After that, the race control delayed the Safety Car for one lap, the article says, because it had been determined that the final safety car would not be needed.
Nevertheless, in a case, which FIA says was caused by the software error, the Race Control instruction: Safety Car in this lap, was issued. The Safety Car was deployed after a crash, and the car finished in the form of the race without a delay.
FIA said that it followed the Safety Car period regulation, Article B5. 13.5, which states that the race should be restarted without a delay. The regulation also states that the process should be carried out by Race Operations.
Penalties at the British Grand Prix were given to Charles Leclerc. The stewards handed out penalties to George Russell for something else, and Lewis Hamilton—for third. The champion of Kimi Antonelli, who won the sprint, was not penalized for anything.
Commenting on the penalties, BBC reports that Leclerc was punished for an incident with another driver on the overtake on two laps. Sky Sports also noted that the Safety Car was issued in 2021 at Abu Dhabi, and that the same rule was applied in Silverstone, according to FIA, and that the same decision was made.