Christian Horner prints out evidence to dispute Max Verstappen penalty
Red Bull b♛elieve 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 Saud♐i Arabian Grand Prix 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’s race in Jeddah🦂.
The four-time world ♑champion remained ahead of𒆙 Piastri until he served his penalty during his pit stop, which subsequently dropped him behind his rival.
Verstappen ultimately had to settle with sec🍸ond 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 Verstappen’s onboard to dispute tꦬhe punishment when he debriefed with 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 to 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 highly unlik꧙ely [Red Bull will appeal].
— Chris Medland (@ChrisMedlandF1)“The rules of engagement ꧋they’ve discussed 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 well. Dropping back behind, you’re then at risk with George [Russell]. The best thing to do at that point wa൩sও get your head down, keep going.
“What was a great shame today was that you can see our pace, versus certainly the McLarens and all other cars in that first st🌟int on the medium, we were in great shape.
“We had to serve the five-second penalty and ther🥀eafter on the same basic🗹 stint as Oscar we finished 2.6 seconds behind.
“So, without that f♛ive-second penalty tod💦ay, it would have been a win.
“There’s always going to be a difference of opinion over a very marginal decision like🃏 tꦉhat.”
Max Verstappen ‘can’t just disappear’
Horner arg🎃ued that Verst🔜appen simply had nowhere to go and couldn’t “just disappear”.
“When you look at that [points to screenshot], I can't see how they gꦺot to that conclusion,” he said.
"Max can't just disappear at this point in time, so perhaps these rules need a re-look at. I don't kn🦋ow what happened to let them race ܫon 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 e🤪vidence and determined 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 alongs🉐ide 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 gained a lasting adva🅘ntage that was not given back. He stayed in f🐟ront of Car 81 and sought to build on the advantage.
"Ordinarily, the baseline penalty for leaving the track and gaining a lasting advantage is 10 seconds. However, given that this was lap one𝐆 and turn one incident, we considered that to be a mitigating circumst♎ance and imposed a 5 second time penalty instead.”
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