Haas has been fined €5000 for an unsafe release in the Formula 1 Malaysian Grand Prix after a mechanical failure caused his front-left wheel to fall off during the race.
The team has also been ordered to file a report to FIA technical delegate Jo Bauer to explain the failure, as well as providing evidence of "all corrective actions", according to a stewards' report.
Gutierrez was on an outlap after his third pitstop at the Sepang circuit when he lost the front-left wheel of his car, forcing him to park on the side of the track.
The report from the stewards, led by BRDC president Derek Warwick, read: "Having reviewed the audio from the car, the available data and spoken to the driver and team concerned, the stewards were satisfied that the driver Gutierrez did not know that he was driving the car in an unsafe condition.
"It appears a mechanical failure led to the wheel being able to be tightly fitted to the car while not actually attached correctly.
"An additional failure occurred in Turn 1 under braking, but the wheel was still retained in an abnormal way until it appears that the failure of the rim blew the wheel past the retention devices.
"Having spoken with the technical delegate, the stewards were satisfied that the retention devices operated within their required design limits.
"However, as some function of the design, part failure of fitting allowed the wheel to come loose on the track, which is considered a serious safety issue, the stewards determined that this led to the car being released in an unsafe condition."
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