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 appeal.
Red Bull are unlikely to protest168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Max Verstappen’s penalty at the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix despite believing it wa✤s wrong.
Verstappen was handed a five-second time penalty for illegally passing McLaren’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri by taking to꧃ the Turn 1 ๊run-off area at the start of Sunday’s race in Jeddah.
The fou🅠r-time world champion remained ahead of Piastri until he served his penalty during his pit stop, which subsequently dropped him behind his rival.
Verstappen ultimately had to settle with second place, crossing the line just 2.8 seconds behind Piastri, who moved into the le♋ad of the world championship with his third win in five races this season.
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner presented evidence from 𝐆Verstappen’s onboard to dispute the punishment when he debrie🌃fed with the media on Sunday night.
"Obviously, we spoke to the stewards after the race,” Horner explained. “They thi﷽nk 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 t🧸hat wasn't available at the ♕time. We'll put this in front of them first, but I think it's highly unlikely [Red Bull will appeal].
— Chris Medland (@ChrisMedlandF1)“Theꦍ rule🐷s 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 was get your head down, keep goi♛ng.
“What was a great shame today was that you can see our pace, versus certainly t🍌𒆙he 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 thereaft🐻er on the same basic stint as Oscar we finished 2.6 seconds behind.
“So, without that five-second penalty today, it woul💃d have been a win.
“There’s always going to be a differenc🍌e of opinion over a very marginal decision l♛ike that.”
Max Verstappen ‘can’t just disappear’
Horner argued that Verstappen simply had nowhere to go and coul👍dn’t “just disappear”.
“When you look at tꦆhat [points to screen⭕shot], I can't see how they got 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 know what happened to le♏t them race on the first lap. That just seemed to have been abando꧋ned.”
Explaining their decision, the steward🐭s said: "The Stewards reviewed positioning/marshalling system data, video, timing, telemetry and in-car video evidence 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 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 gained a lasting advantage that was not given back. He stayed in front of Car 81 andꦦ sought to build on the advantage.
"Ordinarily, 𒀰the baseline penalty for leaving the track and gaining 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 and imposed a 5 second time penalty instead.”
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