Charles Leclerc, Ferrari, Singapore, 2025

The stewards have fined Ferrari €10,000 for causing a collision between Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris during second practice.

The two drivers tangled in the fast lane of the pits moments after race control announced when the session would resume following a red flag interruption. McLaren sent Norris out of his garage and into the lane but Ferrari, who are positioned closer to the pit exit, waved Leclerc out and he made contact with Norris’s car.

Leclerc was able to continue but McLaren had to pull Norris’s car back into the garage for repairs. They later sent him back out onto the track after repairing his front wing.

The stewards ruled Ferrari deserved “a more severe penalty” for the incident compared to other cases of teams unsafely releasing cars in the pits. They noted the team member responsible for instructing Leclerc failed to realise Norris’s car was drawing alongside as they waved their car out.

“After a red flag period, several cars exited their garages. Car 16 [Leclerc] was initially instructed by a team member to leave his pit box. At that moment however, it was overlooked that car four [Norris] was already passing in the fast lane, approaching the Ferrari pit box and directly into the path of Leclerc. The team member, who was responsible for the safe conduct of releasing car 16, misjudged the situation and gave unclear instructions to Leclerc, who could not see Norris’s car. As a result, both cars collided in the fast lane.”

The FIA penalty guidelines note that teams should normally be fined when they are judged responsible for an ‘unsafe release’ during practice. “Having noted precedents for this type of breach, the stewards are of the view that this breach warrants a more severe penalty than previously applied hence the penalty above is imposed,” they noted.

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