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Olivier Panis will start tomorrow's British Grand Prix at Silverstone from the back of the grid after stewards penalised the Frenchman for slowing Felipe Massa during the Sauber drivers qualifying lap.{br}{br}View the Entire Article{br}

outback_ute

He certainly deserved it! Must have gone to sleep or something, imagine being on the racing line when the next car is coming up behind on their qualifying lap.

fordel

interesting, seems a bit harsh to just do that to him, if others had been doing the same previously

chris

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outback_ute

No, what they were referring to was the prequalifying session earlier, where drivers were going slow so they would have an earlier run during qualifying in case it rained (1 lap dash).

Panis was on his return lap after his qualifying lap and was on the racing line when Massa came up to him, thereby spoiling his run into the corner and slowing him down. Completely unacceptable, and I would have to say that the Toyota statements are looking at the incident through rose-coloured glasses.