Ferrari Gets FIA Warning After Lawson Monaco Incident — Fia Monaco Grand Prix Penalties
Ferrari received fia monaco grand prix penalties scrutiny on Friday at Monaco after the FIA handed the team a formal warning for impeding Liam Lawson in FP1. The ruling adds an official stewards outcome to a pit-lane and practice session that already put Charles Leclerc back in front of the officials.
Leclerc’s La Rascasse lapse
Charles Leclerc was involved in the impeding call at Turn 18, known as La Rascasse, after Ferrari’s pit wall told him, "Three seconds to Bearman, five seconds to Lawson." The stewards said the message was accurate, but Leclerc misunderstood it and acted on the wrong gap.
"As Car 30 was approaching Car 16 the team advised the driver of Car 16 ‘3 seconds to Bearman, 5 seconds to Lawson. This was an accurate statement." The report added, "However the driver of Car 16 reasonably assumed that this meant there was a 5 second gap between Bearman and Lawson when in fact there was only a 2 second gap."
FIA ruling on Ferrari
That misunderstanding was the reason the stewards gave for the unnecessary impeding, and Ferrari accepted that it would revise its communication protocols to cut the risk of a repeat. The warning was the formal punishment from the FIA after the Friday Monaco Grand Prix incident, with the team’s error now written into the record.
Leclerc’s name was already familiar to the stewards that week. He had arrived late to Thursday’s FIA press conference in Monte Carlo, which led to Ferrari receiving a suspended fine of €5,000, and McLaren receiving the same suspended €5,000 penalty after Lando Norris was also late.
Lawson leaves without sanction
Lawson’s day was not limited to being impeded. He also escaped a penalty after crossing the red light at the end of the pit lane in a separate FP1 incident, leaving the Racing Bulls driver clear of any sanction from that episode.
For Ferrari, the practical fallout is simple: the team leaves Monaco with a warning on the books and a pledge to tighten its radio calls after one misread message turned into an avoidable stewards case. The weekend’s next issue for the team is not another theory session, but whether its communication holds up when traffic tightens again.
