Friday's stewards' documents confirmed a busy day of penalties well before Sunday's grid is even set. Three drivers were handed grid drops for power unit changes made ahead of FP1: Hadjar takes a 5-place penalty for a seventh ICE, and Lindblad the heaviest of the lot, a 30-place drop after bringing a fifth engine, turbocharger and exhaust set all at once, each additional element beyond his allocation carrying its own 10-place cost. Colapinto was also handed a 10-place penalty for a fifth ICE, which stacks on top of the 5-place grid penalty he's already carrying into this weekend from his collision in Baku.
The other case to come out of Friday was a different kind of incident entirely. In FP2, Hamilton was travelling slowly approaching Turn 9 when Bortoleto arrived from behind on an out lap. Hamilton moved onto the racing line at the end of the straight, forcing Bortoleto to brake and take evasive action to avoid him.
The stewards accepted that Hamilton's right-hand mirror was damaged and that Ferrari hadn't radioed him a warning, since such calls aren't normally made for cars that aren't on a push lap. Even so, they ruled Hamilton had unnecessarily impeded a significantly faster car by moving onto the racing line at low speed, regardless of what lap Bortoleto was on. They stopped short of calling it dangerous, noting Bortoleto stayed in control throughout, and settled on the standard practice-session penalty of a warning for Hamilton personally.
Ferrari didn't escape without consequence, though. The stewards found the team knew about the damaged mirror and should have warned Hamilton about traffic regardless of whether it was on a push lap, and fined Scuderia Ferrari HP €10,000 for failing to pass that information on.
Between the three grid drops and Lindblad's penalty in particular, Sunday's grid is already taking a very different shape from wherever Saturday's Qualifying times put these drivers.