 After a chaotic Formula 3 sprint race on Saturday morning at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium, all three Trident drivers were among the nine drivers handed post-race penalties by the Stewards. All three Trident cars in Leonardo Fornaroli, Sami Meguetounif and Santiago Ramos were among nine drivers which included Martinius Stenshorne and Luke Browning of Hitech Pulse-Eight, Mari Boya of Campos Racing, Alexander Dunne of MP Motorsport, Charlie Wurz of Jenzer Motorsport and Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak of AIX Racing. The nine drivers were penalised after the Formula 3 sprint race in Belgium, with track limits being at the centre of the reasons for the penalties handed out amongst the nine drivers, In the Saturday morning sprint race, a controlled performance from Prema driver Dino Beganovic who would take his second win of the season in a very calm Prema 1-2, albeit in tricky conditions. Beganovic would finish ahead of teammate Gabriele Mini, the championship leader. Firstly, all three Trident drivers in Fornaroli, Meguetounif and Ramos would all be handed time penalties after the race for track limit violations. Meguetounif had already been handed 30 seconds worth of time penalties for track limits during the feature race. In addition to the 30 seconds, Meguetounif would be handed a five-second time penalty for the additional track limits infringement. He would have an unchanged position in the final classification, from the provisional classification, in 28th place. It would be 35-seconds worth of time penalties due to exceeding track limits on 10 separate occasions. The other Trident drivers in Leonardo Fornaroli and Santiago Ramos were handed time penalties, alongisde their teammate Sami Meguetounif, Fornaroli was handed a five second time penalty alongside with his teammate Ramos, as both drivers had exceeded track limits on four separate occasions each. Therefore, with the penalties applied, Fornaroli would drop from eighth to ninth while Ramos would drop from fifth to eighth. A track limit headache for the Trident team, post-race at Spa Francorchamps. Over at Hitech, their drivers Luke Browning and Martinius Stenshorne would be punished by the Stewards, after the race, for track limit violations. Browning of Williams Academy would receive 10 seconds worth of time penalties after the race due to having been found to have exceeded track limits on five separate occasions. The 10-second time penalty would see the driver second in the championship drop from seventh to 12th, therefore out of the points. A nightmare for the British driver. As for the McLaren junior of Martinius Stenshorne, he would receive just a five-second penalty for track limit violations, in comparison to his Hitech Pulse-Eight teammate Luke Browning. Stenshorne would exceed track limits on four separate occasions and therefore would be handed a five-second time penalty, dropping him to 18th overall, in the final classification. Over at Campos Racing, Spanish driver Mari Boya would be handed a lot of five-second time penalties after the race, amounting to a 25-second time penalty overall. After the sprint race at Spa Francorchamps, by the Stewards, Boya would be found to have exceeded track limits on eight separate occasions. Due to the 25-second time penalty, Boya would drop to 28th in the final classification, behind Meguetounif. Charlie Wurz of Jenzer Motorsport would be handed a five-second time penalty by the Stewards for track limits also. Wurz would be handed a five-second penalty for exceeding track limits on four separate occasions during the sprint race. Therefore, the Jenzer Motorsport driver would remain in 26th place, despite the penalties. At Van Amersfoort Racing, Australian driver Tommy Smith would be handed a 10-second time penalty, which was amounted up from two five-second time penalties after the sprint race in Belgium. Smith , after the race by the Stewards, was found to have exceeded the track limits on five separate occasions. As a result, Smith would pick up 10 seconds worth of a time penalty and the Van Amersfoort driver would drop from 18th to 25th in the final classification. McLaren junior driver Alex Dunne would also be handed 10 seconds worth of time penalties after the sprint race at Spa Francorchamps, for MP Motorsport. Dunne would pick up two five-second time penalties for exceeding the track limits on five separate occasions which would see the total penalty amount up to 10 seconds. With the penalty applied, Dunne would drop to 23rd in the final classification from 14th. Finally, AIX Racing's Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak would be handed 10 seconds worth of time penalties after the sprint race in Belgium.The 10 seconds would go alongside the 10-second time penalty that Inthraphuvasak picked up during the race for track limits. The total time penalties would amount to 20 seconds worth but would keep the Thailand driver in 29th in classification. After all the penalties handed out post-race, the drivers, teams and Stewards will be hoping there are less track limit infringements when FIA Formula 3 goes racing for the penultimate feature race of the season on Sunday morning at the Spa Francorchamps circuit, on Grand Prix Sunday in Belgium. The feature race will commence with Great Britain's Callum Voisin on pole position and Alex Dunne of the Republic of Ireland joining him on the front row. Lights out will be 08:30 track time, which is 07:30am UK time. 2024 FIA Formula 3 Championship: Round 9 - Belgium sprint race final classificationDrivers highlighted in red were awarded time penalties and due to these have been classified in these positions.
Brandon Whiteside Writer - F1 Journal 
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