Former Red Bull sporting director Jonathan Wheatley says he would have handled 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s Turn 1 📖incident at the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix differently.

Verstappen, who was on pole position, was handed a five-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage when he took to the run-off at the first corner to retain his position ahead of McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri, who had made a better start.

The four-time world champion served his punishment during his only pit stop and ultimately dropped behind Piastri as heꦚ finished second, 2.8s behind his rival.

Wheatley, who left Red Bull over the winter to🦂 become Sauber’s new team principal, said he would have handled the incident differently if he was still running things at his former team.

“Oh, I know wha♎t my thoughts were,” Wheatley said.

“I mean, I would have done something different, I would have advised to do something differently, 🐼I think that was probably the best thing.

“I don’t want anyone commenting on what we would do as a team, I don’t want to comment on what other people w♋ould do, but I think in our team, we would have handled it differently, an꧋d certainly had a conversation about doing things differently.

“It was a little bit the other way around, but it was like Tur♏n 12 [Verstappen versus Lando Norris] in Texas last year.”

The penalty left Verstappen and Re🐠d Bull angry, with team principal Christian Horner presenting evidence to argue against the stewards decision.

“We had that sort of discussꦦion with the Race Director before the race through briefings and whatever 🤡else,” Horner said after the race.

“We h🎃ave this notion of ‘let them race’ – I don’t know where Max was supposed to go at that first corner. We’ve 𝐆lost the race by [2.8] seconds so, yeah, it’s tough.

“I think the most pos🎀itive thing for us today was the pace was there – it was a ver✃y positive race. Congrats to Oscar, but [it’s] disappointing not to get the win.”

The stewards de꧋termined “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 therefore Car 81’s corner and he was entitled to be given room. Car 1 then left the track and gainedꦓ a lasting advantage that was not given back. He stayed in front of Car 81 and sought to build on the advantage.”

They used mitigating services to issue Verstapp🐷en with a five-second penalty instead of the baseline 10-second penalty due to the incident taking place at Turn 1 on the opening lap. 

Sky Sports F1's Martin Brundle also felt Red Bull had 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:"misread" the incident.