Yuki Tsunoda has been handed a five-second time penalty for exceeding track limits on multiple occasions during the sprint race ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix.
Starting from fifth on the grid after out-qualifying Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen for the first time this season in any format, Tsunoda made a positive start by easing past Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso to temporarily claim fourth.
Verstappen, however, was also superb off the line as he found a way past Alonso before then attacking Tsunoda through the first few corners to slot into fourth himself.
Running in a comfortable fifth position over the following laps, with no threat from behind, Tsunoda was initially handed a black-and-white flag for his track limits infractions before finally netting the time penalty.
Tsunoda crossed the line in fifth position behind the race-winner in McLaren's Oscar Piastri, but with the penalty relegating him to sixth behind Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli.
However, with Antonelli receiving his own five-second penalty for track limits violations late on, the positions were then reversed.
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