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Seven GP2 drivers penalised at Spa

2016 GP2 Series Round 8. Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium. Sunday 28 August 2016. Artem Markelov (RUS, RUSSIAN TIME), Oliver Rowland (GBR, MP Motorsport), Sergey Sirotkin (RUS, ART Grand Prix) crash. Photo: Zak Mauger/GP2 Series Media Service. ref: Digital Image _X0W2954

Following the sprint race of the GP2 Series at Spa-Francorchamps, seven drivers were found guilty of using their DRS on the first lap, and therefore received a ten second penalty added to their race time.

The penalised drives are : Sergey Sirotkin, Jordan King, Arthur Pic, Daniël De Jong, Nabil Jeffri and Jimmy Eriksson.

King and Lynn, the only ones who initially finished in the top 8 lost their points, finishing tenth and twelfth respectively and handing points to Sergio Canamasas and Norman Nato. Sirotkin finished P16, Pic P22, De Jong P17, Jeffri P18 and Eriksson P20.