Carlos Sainz has highlighted two incidents arising from the Miami Grand Prix that, in his view, have underscored inconsistencies within the penalty course of inside Method 1.
Expressing his confusion and battle to understand the decision-making course of behind Method 1 penalties, Sainz admitted his bemusement. Following the Miami Grand Prix, Sainz discovered himself on the receiving finish of a five-second sanction from the stewards.
The penalty was a results of contact with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, which led to the breakage of Piastri’s entrance wing and subsequently precipitated him to drop out of the factors standings after having to pit for repairs.
The consequence of this penalty was a demotion for Sainz from his fourth-place place on the observe to fifth, with Sergio Perez advancing one place. Sainz, nonetheless, believes that the severity of the impression attributable to the contact disproportionately influenced the penalty he acquired.
“I misplaced minimal management of the automotive when overtaking Oscar, I sadly broken his front-wing and clearly he went backwards 15 positions – and I acquired a five-second time penalty,” he acknowledged.
“In that sense, I do know we maintain considering we don’t have a look at the result [of the contact], however on this case, I feel clearly we’re nonetheless wanting on the end result.
“In my view, the results are nonetheless having a little bit of an have an effect on within the penalty that you simply get which I don’t absolutely share and I’m nonetheless a bit puzzled and battle with it typically.”
Sainz additionally referred to an incident initially of the race, the place Pink Bull’s Perez braked deeply, locked up, and narrowly prevented colliding together with his teammate Max Verstappen.
Whereas there was no direct contact attributable to Perez, his actions pressured drivers behind him, together with Sainz, to react, ensuing within the lack of positions. Regardless of the absence of contact, the Spanish driver believed that Perez ought to have confronted penalties for his actions.
“Drivers typically don’t [understand] both,” Sainz remarked relating to the complexity of the penalty scenario.
“On this case, I battle to grasp it, and I’m going to place a really clear instance that I even shared with Checo in the beginning – he utterly misplaced management and almost took two guys out.
“We had been fortunate to keep away from him, he went off the observe and there wasn’t a consequence, there wasn’t any contact however it value rather a lot to my race and different individuals’s races and he didn’t get a penalty.
“As a result of I’m utterly sure that if Oscar didn’t must pit, then I wouldn’t have gotten a penalty and everybody could be speaking a few good overtake and good motion on a observe the place this can be very tough to overhaul and also you needed to go for a transfer like that.
“However however, Checo didn’t contact anybody, all of us managed to keep away from him and there was no penalty.”
