Frederic Vasser believes the Australian Grand Prix stewards should at least have listened to Carlos Sainz, who collided with Fernando Alonso on the final restart, but a detailed analysis of the incident was not carried out and the Spanish Ferrari driver simply received a 5 second penalty, dropping him to 12th place.
“It’s also my job to weigh all the pros and cons, but as I’ve just come back from the pit wall, the mood is rather unimportant, because I think overall we worked well,” said the head of the Scuderia on the British Channel 4 broadcast. – Carlos bounced back from an unfortunate pit stop as he pitted just before the race was stopped by the red flags.
And then, at the end, he was fined, which I consider a very severe punishment. In situations like this, when the podium is already close, you are naturally overwhelmed with emotions, because you came in 4th place, although you were nowhere at all, because everyone could make a “free” pit stop and keep their positions. But Carlos did a great job.
I think you can argue about the size of the penalty, whether it was severe or not, and the position depends on your position in the team. But I believe that the stewards could at least listen to the representatives of the team, study the telemetry, especially since it would not have affected the distribution of places on the podium anyway. It remains only to regret that it all happened.
On the final stage, within ten minutes, the rules changed twice as they handled Alonso’s pit stop. It was also possible to act now, or at least have a discussion. In Jeddah it took them 30 laps to decide on Alonso, and today everything happened in five seconds.
Source: F1 News
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