Liam Lawson stripped of Monaco pole position for lap under yellow flag
Liam Lawson has been stripped of his pole position for the Formula 2 weekend in Monaco in a raft of post-qualifying penalties.
Felipe Drugovich, who crashed and brought out the yellow flags, inherits pole position, while Lawson and Ayumu Iwasa were both penalised for failing to slow down.
Lawson was slapped with a fifth-place grid penalty for failing to slow under yellow flags, while Iwasa was penalised ten spots for the same under double-waved yellows.
Liam Lawson on track during qualifying at Monaco. (Formula Motorsport Limited)
Meanwhile, Olli Caldwell was given a three-place grid penalty for impeding Marino Sato during qualifying, while Aussie Calan Williams was fined €1000 (AUD $1500) with a €2000 ( AUD $3000) suspended fine after team personnel worked on his car in the pit lane without wearing helmets.
With the qualifying groups combined, penalties applied and top ten reversed on the grid, Jake Hughes maintains pole position for Saturday's sprint race.
Kiwi Marcus Armstrong starts fourth, with Liam Lawson in eleventh.
Aussie Jack Doohan starts seventh, with Calan Williams in fourteenth.
The FIA Formula 2 Sprint Race gets underway 1.40am Sunday morning (AEST), with the Feature Race at 5.40pm Sunday evening.
Doohan will now be the highest-placed Aussie or Kiwi for Sunday's feature race, starting in third behind Drugovich and Theo Pourchaire.
Lawson will start fifth on Sunday, with Marcus Armstrong behind him in seventh and Calan Williams in fifteenth.
