Racing Bulls Breaks Silence on Sainz’s Penalty Reversal After Lawson Clash

Racing Bulls’s Formula 1 team director, Alan Permanent, spoke of the penalty that was taken from Carlos Sainz at the Dutch Grand Prix after contact with Liam Lawson.

The two pilots clashed in the 27th round when Sainz tried to pass Lawson, damaging the two cars. The Kiwi pilot finished the race in P14, while Sainz finished in P10 after engaging a 10 -second penalty for the incident. Two points were also added to the supervision of Spanish.

Williams filed a request for the right to review from the delegates before the Italian Grand Prix which followed. To prove that Sainz was not at fault, the team gave the new evidence of the FIA ​​Stewards which had not been shared earlier.

The stewards scanned the evidence of a 360 -degree camera on the Williams FW47 F1 car, images oriented backwards of the VCARB 02 of Lawson and the testimony of a driver. Presenting a final verdict, the commissioners overthrew the Sainz penalty, considering the confrontation as a race incident. The two penalty points on the Superization of Sainz were deleted, but the 10 seconds penalty which was told during the race was irreversible.

Permanent had declared after the Dutch GP that Lawson missed his chance to obtain a P5 due to the incident. Now speaking in Baku, the team’s boss commented on the inversion of the penalty and said he didn’t want the drivers to crash. He said to the media:

“I guess it will open the door to more challenges. I think that for a right of review, you must provide new important and relevant evidence. And I think one of the things they accepted was that Carlos was not lucky to speak.

“So his testimony was new evidence. So if you make a decision in the race, you will automatically have this as a chance to challenge it. I think what we want to see, what everyone wants to see is the race and the closed races and overruns. And of course, we are on the wrong side, but we don’t want the cars to follow and be linked by this very rigid thing.

“So, if that opens up that a little and means that Carlos could be next to it, I think everyone will welcome this. We don’t want cars to be driven to each other, but we don’t want a procession either, right?”

Williams commented on reversal of the penalty after the FIA ​​published her final verdict. He said:

“We are grateful to the delegates to have examined Carlos’ penalty in Zandvoort and we are delighted that they have now decided that he was not at fault and that it was a race incident.

“Although it is frustrating that our breed was compromised by the initial decision, errors are part of the car race and we will continue to work constructively with the FIA ​​to improve the steward processes and review the race rules for the future.”