Mailleux penalised for cutting chicane

Franck Mailleux has been penalised for cutting a chicane during the first F3 Euro Series race at Le Mans, which hands pole position for race two to Brendon Hartley.

Mailleux finished seventh in Saturday's race, holding off Robert Wickens and Hartley for the majority of the second half of the event. However, he was penalised for gaining an advantage from cutting the first chicane at the start.

"It's true, I cut the chicane," said the French driver. "But it wasn't possible to let all the drivers back through before the next corner."

The initial result meant the Signature driver and his teammate Wickens would start from the front row together in the reverse-grid race, but Mailleux's 30-second penalty promotes Wickens up a place in the results, which ironically costs him pole position for race two.

The penalty drops Mailleux from seventh to 14th in the results of race one.

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