Carlos Sainz has referred to as Oscar Piastri’s penalty on the Sao Paulo Grand Prix “unacceptable”, urging a evaluate.
Piastri was handed a 10-second time penalty after hitting Kimi Antonelli into Charles Leclerc following the Security Automobile restart in Brazil.
It proved a expensive penalty for Piastri, who completed fifth at Interlagos, shedding additional floor to teammate Lando Norris within the title race.
Talking forward of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Sainz was outspoken in regards to the stewards’ resolution.
“I feel we’d like urgently a catch-up and try to remedy it, as a result of for me the truth that Oscar obtained a penalty there in Brazil is unacceptable, actually, for the class that we’re in and being the head of motorsport,” Sainz informed reporters in Las Vegas.
“Everybody that’s seen racing is aware of that that’s not Oscar’s fault in any respect, and everybody that’s actually raced a race automotive is aware of he might have finished nothing to keep away from an accident there and he obtained away with a 10-second penalty. For me it’s one thing that I don’t perceive.
“I didn’t perceive my Zandvoort penalty, I didn’t perceive why Ollie [Bearman] obtained a penalty once we each collided in Monza.
“So there’s been not one however a number of incidents this yr that for me are removed from the place the game must be.”
Present course of in F1 “not working”
New racing pointers had been launched over the previous 12 months following quite a lot of incidents on the finish of final yr.
In consequence, the stewards have tried their greatest to observe them.
In Piastri’s case, they felt he was uncontrolled on account of a lock-up at Flip 1, resulting in a penalty.
The overall consensus from pundits was that it was a racing incident.
“It’s troublesome to guage, as a result of it might go each methods,” Sainz added. “You might criticise the best way the rules are written and we ask the stewards to clearly apply these pointers as firmly as potential and the stewards are simply doing their job.
“Or are the rules [just] pointers and the stewards ought to take them as pointers and never as black or white? It might go each methods. I’m undecided what the answer is, however it is rather clear for me that after what I noticed in Brazil, one thing will not be fairly working.”
