Horner agreed to participate in the event as part of his sentence after he made controversial comments to the media following Max Verstappen’s grid penalty at last November’s Qatar GP.
Verstappen received a five-place grid penalty and two superlicence penalty points for failing to respect double yellow flags in qualifying after Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri stopped on the pit straight.
Speaking to Sky F1, the frustrated Horner blamed a “rogue marshal” for incorrectly using a double waved yellow.
After his comments were widely reported, the FIA took the matter very seriously, and Horner was called to see the stewards on race day under the provisions of the International Sporting Code.
The ISC specifies that “any words, deeds or writings that have caused moral injury or loss to the FIA, its bodies, its members or its executive officers, and more generally on the interest of motor sport and on the values defended by the FIA” represent a breach of the rules.
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