{"id":18454,"date":"2025-11-30T00:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=664929"},"modified":"2025-11-30T00:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:04:26","slug":"f1-2025-qatar-gp-sainz-placed-under-investigation-after-plastic-stuck-on-wheel-stops-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/f1-2025-qatar-gp-sainz-placed-under-investigation-after-plastic-stuck-on-wheel-stops-q3\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2025 Qatar GP: Sainz placed under investigation after plastic stuck on wheel stops Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"307\">Q3 at the Qatar Grand Prix saw unexpected drama when <strong data-start=\"215\" data-end=\"243\">Carlos Sainz of Williams<\/strong> triggered a red flag after an unusual debris incident on track.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"309\" data-end=\"618\">Sainz ran over a <strong data-start=\"326\" data-end=\"391\">piece of plastic that became lodged near his front-left wheel<\/strong>, causing slight instability as he continued his lap. Moments later, the plastic <strong data-start=\"472\" data-end=\"515\">dislodged and fell onto the racing line<\/strong>, forcing Race Control to immediately throw a <strong data-start=\"561\" data-end=\"573\">red flag<\/strong> to clear debris and gravel from the circuit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"620\" data-end=\"766\">With just five minutes remaining, the halt came at a critical point in qualifying, interrupting all drivers preparing for their final flying laps.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"768\" data-end=\"990\">Soon after, it was confirmed that <strong data-start=\"802\" data-end=\"847\">Sainz has been placed under investigation<\/strong>\u2014the stewards are reviewing whether he continued on track with loose debris attached to his car, potentially creating a safety risk for others.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"992\" data-end=\"1164\">Once the debris was cleared, Q3 resumed, but the spotlight now remains on the Williams driver as stewards deliberate on any possible consequences arising from the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q3 at the Qatar Grand Prix saw unexpected drama when Carlos Sainz of Williams triggered a red flag after an\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":39185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}