Stop-and-go penalty

A stop-and-go penalty requires the car to enter the pit lane, stop in its box for a stated number of seconds with no work performed, then rejoin. The cost is the pit lane transit plus the standing time, which makes it the sharper of the two standard in-race penalties.

Endurance stewarding uses time-scaled versions of it for offences of different severity, and in long races teams sometimes fold the damage into a scheduled stop's timing window as best they can. The gentler sibling is the drive-through, which skips the standing time.