‘Not consistent and professional enough,’ Carlos Sainz slams the FIA’s decision-making over his Australian GP penalty again
Carlos Sainz slammed the FIA for its inconsistency in decision making for in-race penalties.
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Carlos Sainz lost out on a potential podium at the Australian GP after the Spaniard was given a last-minute time penalty for his collision with Fernando Alonso. This penalty was imposed on Sainz at the closing stages of the race under the Safety Car, which saw him drop out of the points completely. The 28-year-old has once again hit out at the FIA.
The Spanish driver was asked if different criteria were used for giving penalties at different times. The 28-year-old denied believing in such a system that changes decisions based on the culprit. However, Sainz asserted that decisions were not taken consistently. He replied, “I am not going to get into the disparity, depending on who commits the action… but I do believe that there is a disparity in decisions.”
The Ferrari driver did not want to put accusations against any individual. Instead, Sainz wanted to highlight this disparity witnessed in the sport. Carlos Sainz explained, “I do not go into who commits the action, because I think it is getting into a swampy and accusing terrain. Something that I do not like. But I do believe that there are places where you look very closely, as happened in Australia, and in others, you don’t look.”
The 28-year-old slammed the Mohammed Ben Sulayem-led FIA for failing to provide consistent decisions. He continued, “I think it’s not consistent and professional enough that this sport should be. Hence I get angry in Australia, where I think the sanctions were not well-adjusted.”
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Carlos Sainz has moved on from the Australian GP penalty fiasco
Sainz described the root of his anger for the Australian GP penalty. The 28-year-old claimed that such a penalty would have a lesser effect at the start of the race as a driver could make it up in the rest of the GP. He stated, “Because I think that a 5-second penalty, with two laps to go and under a safety car, is not the same as 5 seconds on the first lap. When you have an hour and a half to make up for them. In what happened to me, I didn’t even have the opportunity.”
The Ferrari driver admitted that he felt angry about how this decision was taken. Sainz continued, “The anger about what happened, how the sanction was applied, and how I was excluded from the race for a minor incident has not yet passed.” Thankfully, the 28-year-old has stopped caring about this incident and healed over the past few things. Sainz demands a change in the way such penalties are decided.
Carlos concluded, “No, no. I’ve forgotten and I don’t go to bed every day thinking about it, like I did three nights after the race. It’s been weeks and time heals everything. But there are certain things that I would like to improve and demand changes and this is a perfect example.”
Thus, Carlos Sainz admits that his anger after the Australian GP was the nature of the penalty. The Spaniard didn’t get a chance to make a 5-second gap from the cars behind due to the Safety Car. The 28-year-old has urged for changes to be implemented to prevent such incidents in the future.
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