Raikkonen hit with gearbox penalty

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Kimi Raikkonen has been handed a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix.

The Finn stopped on track during Q2 on Saturday, leaving him 14th on the provisional grid having been unable to set a time during the session. However, Ferrari has needed to change Raikkonen's gearbox, which carries a five-place penalty.

There are a number of grid penalties at Spa-Francorchamps, which are all applied in order in their entirety as if the grid had infinite space. As a result of a 55-place grid penalty, Fernando Alonso drops to 73rd place and Jenson Button drops to 67th thanks to a penalty of 50 places.

With Max Verstappen receiving a penalty of ten places for using a sixth power unit element, the Toro Rosso driver drops to 25th place. Gaps are left while penalties are applied, so Roberto Merhi is provisionally 20th with Raikkonen's five-place penalty dropping him to 19th behind Will Stevens, and a similar penalty for Romain Grosjean demoting the Frenchman from fourth to ninth.

With the cars then all closed up to fill the vacant slots, Stevens climbs to 15th place, Raikkonen to 16th and Merhi 17th ahead of Verstappen, Button and Alonso.

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