Williams boss James Vowles has revealed that injury to Carlos Sainz’s wheel pace sensors resulted in two penalties for dashing within the pit lane.
Regardless of one other spectacular qualifying show, Sainz was unable to capitalise on it.
The Spaniard picked up injury on the opening lap of the race.
Sainz was one in every of a number of drivers to chop the primary sequence of corners.
Nevertheless, an incident with Liam Lawson ruined his race.
Sainz was nonetheless on the hunt for factors however ended up selecting up two penalties for dashing.
Explaining the problems Sainz confronted in Sunday’s race, Vowles mentioned: “A really tough day. The optimistic information is the automobile was very quick, however we have been unable to make use of it. Within the case of Carlos, the race was over after Flip 1 and the injury resulted in each a flat spot but in addition injury to our wheel pace sensors, that are important for the pit pace limiter.
“The web result’s that we needed to field earlier because the vibrations have been vital, placing us on a two-stop, which led to us going 0.2 kilometres an hour over the pit pace restrict and receiving the five-second penalty.
“After we got here in for the second cease, we tried controlling it manually at 70 kilometres an hour, and on exit, Carlos nonetheless went barely over the pit pace limiter, leading to a drive-through penalty, which we accomplished.
“With out the drive-through penalty, and even with all the opposite components, Carlos was nonetheless combating for some extent at present, which may be very spectacular.”
Giving his perspective, Sainz mentioned: “A race stuffed with points, compromised in all probability by the contact at first.
“I feel we have been three or 4 into [Turn] 1 and there was an enormous melee that I feel… We have been three or 4 vehicles aspect by aspect, like at all times in Mexico, a difficult one.
“I feel I broken my rim, which broken my first set of tyres, my rim sensor, my pace sensors of the tyre and my pit limiter wasn’t working.”
One other robust weekend for Albon
Alex Albon endured one other robust weekend.
Albon lamented brake-related points in qualifying, main to a different early exit in Q1.
He additionally bemoaned Williams’ technique as he completed exterior the highest 10.
“With Alex, we didn’t get it proper throughout the board, from communication, to begin tyre, to how we optimised his efficiency,” Vowles added.
“This can be a blip in what has been a robust season, so let’s end robust throughout the following 4 occasions.”
