Christian Horner prints out evidence to dispute Max Verstappen penalty
Red Bull believe Max Verstappen's penalty in Saudi Arabia was wrong - but are not set to ap✨peal.
Red Bull are unlikely to protest168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen’s penalty at the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand P😼rix despite believing it was wrong.
Verstappen was handed a five-second time penalty for illegally passing McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri by taking to the Turn 1 run-off area at the start of Sunday’s൩ rꦜace in Jeddah.
The four-time world champion remained ahead of Piastri until he served his penalty during his ▨pit stop, whiꦡch subsequently dropped him behind his rival.
Verstappen ultim🍎ately had to settle with second place, crossing the line just 2.8 seconds behind Piastri, who moved into the lead of the world championship with his third win in five races this season.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner presented evidence from Ve💖rstappen’s onboard to dispute the punishment when he debriefed ಌwith the media on Sunday night.
"Obviously, we spoke ﷽to the stewards after the race,” Horner explained. “They think it was a slam dunk. So the problem is, if we're to protest it, then they're going t🐲o most likely hold their line.
"We'll ask them to have a look at the onboard footage that wasn't available at the time. We'll put this in front of them first, but I think it's highꦗly unlikely [Red Bull will appeal].
— Chris Medland (@ChrisMedlandF1)“The rules of engagement they’ve dꦏiscussed previously - and it was a very harsh decision.
“If we’d have given it up, the problem is you then run in the dirty air as w💦ell. Dropping back behind, you’re then at risk with George [Russell]. The best thing to do at that point was get your🌜 head down, keep going.
“𝕴✅What was a great shame today was that you can see our pace, versus certainly the McLarens and all other cars in that first stint on the medium, we were in great shape.
“We had to serve the five-second penalty and thereafter on the same basic stint as O𓂃scar we finished 2.6 seconds 🤪behind.
“So, without that five-second penalty today, it would have been a 𓂃win.
“There’s always going to be a difference of opini♑on over a very margin𝕴al decision like that.”
Max Verstappen ‘can’t just disappear’
Horner argued that Verstappen simply had nowhere to go and couldn’t “just d♑isappear”.
“When you look at that [points to scree♎nshot], I can't see how they got to that conclusion,” he said.
"Max can't just disappear at this point in time, so perhaps t🃏hese rules need a re-look at. I don't know what happened to let them race on the first lap. That just seemed to have been abandoned.”
Explaining their decision, the stewards said: "The Stewards reviewed positioning/marshalling system data, video, timing, telemetry and in-car video evidence and determinꩵed that car 81 [Piastri] had its front axle at least alongside the mirror of Car 1 [Verstappen] prior to and at the apex of corner 1 when trying to overtake Car 1 on the inside.
"In fact, Car 81 was alongside Car 1 at the apex. Based on the Driver’s Standards Guidelines, it was therefo♛re Car 81’s corner and he was entitled to be given rꦑoom.
"♌Car 1 then left the track and gained a lasting advantage that was not given back. He stayed in front of Car 81 and sought༒ to build on the advantage.
"Ordinarily, the baseline penalty for leaving the track and ga✨ining a lasting advantage is 10 seconds. However, given that this was lap one and turn one incident, we considered that to be a mitigating circumstance an🦩d imposed a 5 second time penalty instead.”
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