How is it possible to get penalties before a race starts??

[karmic nest]

I get its stupid, but I want to get into f1 and saw people mentioning stuff like this and am confused asf 😭😭

[unique scaffold]

Yep, engine penalties for example (when a driver exceeds his engine allocation and needs to start further back), you could also get penalties on the formation lap by breaching rules or crashing against your opponent. It's a real possibility, even tho it's quite rare.