David Coulthard insists the important thing resolution taken by stewards on the F1 British Grand Prix may resolve the championship.
Oscar Piastri was main at Silverstone when he was hit with a 10-second time penalty for braking below Security Automobile situations.
He in the end conceded victory to McLaren teammate Lando Norris, who reduce the deficit to championship chief Piastri in consequence.
Ex-British Grand Prix winner Coulthard believes Piastri has been harshly handled.
“Whenever you’re behind the Security Automobile with the lights on, it’s important to preserve inside 10 automotive lengths of that Security Automobile. Protecting the sphere going with you,” he advised Channel 4.
“As soon as the Security Automobile lights exit, you then management the tempo of the restart. You wish to permit the Security Automobile to get off into the pitlane.
“It’s the truth that he has accelerated then decelerated that has caught Max Verstappen out.
“He decelerated in the course of the highway. Max had house, it’s not like he went off into the grass.
“However that was sufficient to say ‘erratic behaviour’.
“Do I believe the penalty matches the crime? No.
“If it’s in line with issues previously, it ought to be a smaller penalty.
“He hasn’t pressured anybody off the highway.
“Seeing from Max’s standpoint? He hasn’t needed to lock up or take massively evasive motion.
“I’ll ceaselessly assume that’s harsh except somebody convinces me in any other case.”
Max Verstappen comparability made
The incident was in comparison with an similar punishment which was given to Verstappen on the F1 Spanish Grand Prix.
Besides in his case, it was after contact was made with George Russell.
Billy Monger advised Channel 4 about Piastri: “I felt it was a penalty. Visibility was low, that comes into issue as nicely.
“Whenever you evaluate the penalty that Verstappen obtained in Barcelona when he pressured Russell off? It was a 10-second penalty, precisely the identical as Oscar.
“Whenever you evaluate these penalties, it feels harsh.”
Coulthard insisted: “That would resolve the championship, that’s how vital it’s.
“Discovering consistency with penalties, and the penalty becoming the crime, is so vital.
“Driving somebody off the observe clearly ought to have a a lot greater penalty than deciding acceleration or deceleration.”
Piastri left the British Grand Prix unusually indignant and insisting his penalty was unwarranted.
The broader really feel inside the F1 paddock was that the stewards have been appropriate to penalise him for extreme braking behind the Security Automobile. However the severity of the penalty has been debated.
Piastri now solely has an eight level lead on the high of the F1 standings.
