Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner believes reviewing penalty decisions risks setting a precedent that 💎will lead to a “never-ending saga” in the sport.

Ferrari has challenged thꦿꦗe Canadian Grand Prix stewards’ decision to hand Sebastian Vettel a controversial time penalty that cost him victory in Montreal, and has been summoned to a hearing at Paul Ricard on Friday to review the incident ahead of the French Grand Prix.

Asked about the incident and whether it has set a precedent for similar requests in the future, Steiner replied: “I wouldn’ܫt say i🅘t’s dangerous but if you set a precedent, you start doing it for doing it['s sake].

“You create confusion. But I think Ferrari felt they need to do it and at some stage I think the stewards need to be reminded that this can happen, a💙nd it’s not good.

“When you make deꦅcisions and you don’t know what t꧙o do because it’s a fifty-fifty, they should not give a penalty, because Mercedes could not come back and demand a penalty. That is not in the rules.

“If there is no penalty given you cann🅠ot go back and demand a penalty for somebod🦄y. To avoid this, a fifty-fifty, we shouldn’t put them in there.

“You start a procꦅess which you never finish - you will always find an excuse and it’s a never-ending saga.”

Steiner said he personally viewed the Vettel-Hamilton incident as a “fifty-fifty” scen꧂ario and “proper racing”.

“How I see it,ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ it’s a fifty-fifty and it can go both ways,” he explained.

“And if it’s a fifty-fifty, I 🦩go without the penalty as I alwa💙ys say. Whether it’s against us or for us, we shouldn’t over-regulate it. If it’s a fifty-fifty, let it go.

“That should be the clear decision inꦬ my opinion. If it’s a 60-40, again it’s very close. But it was a fifty-fifty in my opinio🎐n and it was proper racing.

“If♛ we want to kill racing, if you have to have a 𒆙simulation before the race and decide the race, we need to stop this. We have no value in this anymore in this one.

“For me it was proper racing, it w👍as pretty cool and in the end he got the penalty anꦰd they need to deal with it, I have no input there thank god. It’s a bit of a contentious one.”

And the Haas chief suggested a no-penalty rule over fifty-fif🐓ty incidents should be added to the regulations to✅ help clear up the matter.

“Could we also have a clear rule that if it’s🔜 a fဣifty-fifty we don’t give a penalty? I don’t want to be cheeky here but that could be one of the rules,” he added.

“We had a similar situation in Monte Carlo with Kevin [Magnussen] and Checo [Sergio Perez]. Checo said ‘where should the guy go?’ He had to ta♑ke the shortcut. And some people that looked it, the other drivers, said what can♔ you do.

“The only thing you can do is crash into him and what good is that? Then he gets a penalty for t🌳he next race as well. It’s like he was penalised already and there was nothing at stake.

“Someti𝔉mes you just have to say in these decisions, why❀ the hell did you do this? There was no harm or no foul, Checo got past him, he was behind. That’s it. Why give him a penalty? It was fifty-fifty and Checo was very brave to go in there.

“We looked at it properly and it was a brave move. But then you’ve got a rule where Leclerc pushed Hulkenberg out and nothing 🔯happened, so where is the consistency? If it’s fifty-fifty, just let it go.”