Flag penalty costs Grosjean victory

Romain Grosjean was stripped of his GP2 feature race victory at Hockenheim on Saturday evening after being judged guilty of overtaking a backmarker under yellow flags.

GP2 race director Charlie Whiting ruled that Grosjean passed Marko Asmer in the stadium section of the track when yellow flags were being waved to recover several cars that went off during a rain shower towards the end of the race.

Grosjean argued that Asmer had been shown five blue flags before getting out of his way, but the incident was judged serious enough to warrant a 25-second penalty, dropping him to second place.

Series leader Giorgio Pantano inherits the victory, his fourth of the season, and extends his championship lead to 19 points over Bruno Senna.

Mike Conway, Jerome d'Ambrosio and Vitaly Petrov have also been penalised for failing to slow sufficiently for yellows and will all be demoted ten places down the grid for tomorrow's sprint race.

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