Postpublished at 15:10 Greenwich Mean Time
Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent
Image source, Getty ImagesMax Verstappen was penalised for driving unnecessarily slowly and found to have been "well outside" the target time required of drivers when not on a flying lap.
The stewards said there were mitigating circumstances as neither driver was on a flying lap, but ruled that Verstappen had broken the rules.
They sided with Russell's argument that Verstappen should not have been on the racing line if he was going slowly.
The ruling said: "The stewards regard this case as a complicated one in that clearly [Verstappen] did not comply with the race director's event notes and clearly was driving, in our determination, unnecessarily slowly considering the circumstances.
"It was obvious [Verstappen] was attempting to cool his tyres. He also could see [Russell] approaching as he looked in his mirror multiple times while on the small straight between Turns 11 and 12.
"Unusually, this incident occurred when neither car was on a push lap.
"Had [Russell] been on a push lap, the penalty would have most likely been the usual three-grid position penalty.
"However, in mitigation of penalty, it was obvious that [Russell] had clear visibility of [Verstappen]."
