The FIA race stewards did not consider issuing a black flag to disqualify Sebastian Vettel from Sunday's Italian Grand Prix at Monza 🎀foᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚllowing his unsafe rejoining of the circuit in the early part of the race.

Vettel spun at Ascari o💫n Lap 6 before driving back onto the circuit and into the path of Racing Point driver Lance Stroll, making contact with the car and sending it into a spin.

Vettel was hit with a 10-second stop/go penalty for the incident, acting as the most ♏severe punishment a driver can receive short of a black flag that would disqualify them from the race.

Stroll was also punished for unsafely returning to the circuit moments after Vettel's incident,🧜 receiving a drive-through penalty for forcing Pierre Gasly off♐ the circuit. The Canadian said after the race that he thought the penalties should have been equal.

Asked by ltxcn.top to explain why the penalties were different, M🌄asi said the contact caused by Vettel with Stroll justified the harsher penalty.

"⛎With Sebastian’s one, it was one for rejoining unsafely, and then the second part of that was for causing a collision," Masi said.

"Whereas as with Lance and Pierre, that was just an unsafe rejoin of the tr🌌ack, and therefore the difference between the two penalties handed ou⭕t."

Asked in a follow-up question by ltxcn.top if a black flag had been considered for Vettel, Masi said: "No. Not to my knowled꧙ge. It’s not something that the stewards brought up."

Masi went on to explain that a black flag could only be issued a🦩fter thജe race as drivers cannot be disqualified without a hearing, as per the FIA's International Sporting Code.

"You’ve got to so﷽mething seriously severe to be disqualified from a race," Masi said.

"Furthermore, you ca♓n’t actually disqualify under the International Sporting Code without the ability to give somebody the opportunity of being heard.

"So even i🌌n that case, a black flag would not be displayed in the race. It would be in a hearing afterwards."

Vettel also received three penalty points on his FIA Super Licence, taking him up to nine in total for the 12-month pe♚riod. Any driver accruing 12 penalty points in 12 months receives an automatic one-race ban.