Barcelona GP2: Binder, Coletti, Daly and de Jong all penalised
Rene Binder has lost his front row start for Sunday's Barcelona GP2 race after being among the drivers given post-race penalties for Saturday's round
Binder had finished seventh, which meant he was set to start second behind rookie Tio Ellinas on the reversed-grid for Sunday morning's sprint race.
But Binder, 12th-placed Stefano Coletti and 17th-placed Conor Daly all had 20 seconds added to their race time for yellow flag infringements.
Binder and Daly were both penalised for failing to slow sufficiently, while Coletti's punishment was for going off the road while double waved yellows were out.
That dropped them to 15th, 16th and 18th respectively.
Daniel de Jong has also been given a penalty, in his case a 10-place grid drop for an unsafe pit release after losing a wheel from his MP car on-track following his pitstop.
As there were insufficient cars behind the Dutchman, who retired, in the results for him to take a full 10-place demotion, he will have to start race two from the pitlane.
The penalties mean Tom Dillmann, Binder's temporary Arden team-mate due to back issues for Andre Negrao, becomes Sunday's polesitter, as he moves up to eighth in the race one results. Ellinas will now start second.
Revised results - 36 laps: Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Johnny Cecotto Trident 1h00m28.853s 2. Jolyon Palmer DAMS +3.409s 3. Felipe Nasr Carlin +3.750s 4. Julian Leal Carlin +6.128s 5. Rio Haryanto Caterham +15.895s 6. Arthur Pic Campos +16.842s 7. Tio Ellinas MP +18.407s 8. Tom Dillmann Arden +20.565s 9. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs Rapax +21.265s 10. Stephane Richelmi DAMS +21.460s 11. Artem Markelov Russian Time +22.233s 12. Simon Trummer Rapax +22.804s 13. Stoffel Vandoorne ART +23.397s 14. Mitch Evans Russian Time +23.630s 15. Rene Binder Arden +37.682s* 16. Stefano Coletti Racing Engineering +41.847s* 17. Sergio Canamasas Trident +42.769s 18. Conor Daly Lazarus +45.415s* 19. Kimiya Sato Campos +48.653s 20. Takuya Izawa ART +52.965s * 20s penalty Retirements: Daniel de Jong MP 26 laps Alexander Rossi Caterham 18 laps Nathanael Berthon Lazarus 3 laps Daniel Abt Hilmer 1 lap Raffaele Marciello Racing Engineering 0 laps Facu Regalia Hilmer 0 laps
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