False start penalty for Oriola, Basseng and Karamyshev

The three SEATs of Pepe Oriola, Marc Basseng and Nikolay Karamyshev were all given 30 second penalties for race one after they were deemed guilty of a false start for the race’s rolling start as Moscow.

The three drivers were guilty of going faster than the maximum prescribed speed of 90km/h before the red lights went out at the start.

The penalty has no impact on the result of Campos Racing’s Karamyshev, who was involved in the first corner collision of Fredy Barth and Charles Ng and had finished three laps down, but Münnich Motorsport’s Marc Basseng drops from 14th to 18th after the application of the penalty, and Tuenti Racing’s Pepe Oriola loses his eighth place result and drops to 17th in the results.

This elevates bamboo-engineering’s James Nash to eighth, RML’s Tom Chilton to ninth and PB Racing driver Stefano D’Aste into the final points paying position of tenth.

The Yokohama Drivers’ Trophy points are unaffected as neither Oriola or Basseng are registered for the Trophy this season and Karamyshev was the last car on the road and outside of the top eight in the independents’ classification.