Sainz was forc🔥ed into an engine change after sustaining damage in opening practice in Vegas l🌄ast month.

The Spani♒ard ran over a loose manhole, which completely damaged the underside of his car.

Ferrari were forced to change his chassis and give him new engine components - incurring a 10-place g🎉rid penalty as a result.

As the damage wasn’t through his 🥀own error - or Ferrari’s poor reliability - the team hoped the💙y’d avoid picking up the standard grid penalty.

However, the FIA were left with no choice but to award Sainz a grid drop - a decision that cost Sainz a P2 start for the race, having a knockꦡ-on effect in the battle for second in the constructors’ championship.

"It's a difficult job for a steward, the same as a referee, and we'v🐽e got to be impartial, we've got t🐲o be strict and we've got to be hard sometimes even when it hurts us," he said.

"The penalty we had to give Sainz in Vegas, it felt wrong, it was wrong, we worked very hard for it not tꦚo happen but they're the rules."