Amaury Cordeel banned from next meeting at Silverstone

At Silverstone (July 1-3), one name will be missing from the grid Formula 2 . For the seventh round of the calendar, Amaury Cordeel will not be present at the wheel of his car. After a new penalty obtained in Baku, the Belgian received his 12th penalty point. A sentence which is synonymous with a ban from a race for the Van Amersfoort Racing driver. To see the traces of the same sanction in the antechamber of Formula 2, we have to go back three years with Mahaveer Raghunathan. In 2019, the Indian driver also accumulated 12 penalty points, including 9 in a single race. On the Paul Ricard circuit, the MP Motorsport driver broke the virtual safety car rule three times. 

This weekend, the Belgian driver was found responsible by the stewards for a collision with car 14 of Olli Caldwell. “ The stewards determined that car 14 (Olli Caldwell) was behind car 25 (Amaury Cordeel) between turns 3 and 4. Car 14 chose an outside line and ended up next to car 25 on the straight approaching turn 4. Car 25, focused on the cars in front of it, did not see car 14 on his left. Car 25 swerved to the left, making contact with car 14 and forcing them both to hit the wall. Both cars retired. Car 25 was found entirely responsible for the accident », Specify the commissioners in their verdict. 

Amaury Cordeel already penalized for his return

In addition to not participating in the British event, Amaury Cordeel will also be sanctioned for his return to competition at Red Bull Ring (July 8-10). The Belgian received in addition to his penalty point, a withdrawal of three places on the starting grid. This season, the Van Amersfoort Racing driver has still not scored a single point in Formula 2. 

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