British GP: McLaren maintain Oscar Piastri penalty ‘very harsh’ as F1 team says still ‘things to review’ | F1 News

McLaren says that they will carry out other evaluations of the disputed sanction of Oscar Piastri in the British Grand Prix, from the point of view of the stewards and theirs, having maintained the sanction was “very hard”.

Piastri’s offer for the victory at Silverstone was educated by a 10 -second penalty issued by the race delegates for “Driving Erratic Driving” in front of Max Verstappen while the championship chief “had strongly” the hangar just after the security car had pointed out that he was about to stop at the pits for the race to take up.

Neither Piastri nor McLaren agreed with the decision, although there was comfort for the team in that they have always won the race with Lando Norris and finished a two to extend their major world titles during their home event.

However, the director of the Andrea Stella team said there had been other considerations to be resolved in the incident.

“I glanced up to data and video before coming here,” Stella told journalists after Sunday race

“I must say that the penalty always seems very hard.

“There are a few factors that we would have liked to take into account the commissioners.

“First of all, the safety car was called very late, not leaving much time for the leader to really restart under conditions under which you lose the temperature of the tires, you lose the brake temperature, and the same goes for everyone.

“The 50 bar [brake pressure]This is a pressure that you see during the safety race, when you are braking and accelerating. “”

He added that they also wanted to examine whether “other competitors” – who in this case would have been the Rival of Red Bull Verstappen – “made the situation worse than what it is” in the incident.

However, the Stewards verdict said that Verstappen had been forced to take “evasive measures to avoid a collision”, briefly exceeding Piastri, because the Australian had “suddenly held back hard (59.2 psi of braking pressure) and a reduced speed in the middle of the right … from 218 km / h to 52 km / h”.

Stella said: “We will also have to see if other competitors have somehow returned the situation worse than what it is, because we know that in the course of the race of certain competitors, there is certainly the possibility of making others look like a serious violation when they are not.

“So, a few things to consult. A few things to examine. But in itself, now the penalty has been decided, has been served and we are moving on.”

In the end, accepting the decision, he added: “We will see if there is something to learn on our side, and I am sure that Oscar will use this motivation to be even more determined for coming races and trying to win as many races as possible in the future.”

McLaren wanted the investigation to take place after the race

Having been in communication with the control of the breed after Piastri’s sentence, Stella said that McLaren had in fact wanted the commissioners to investigate the incident after the race when they could have spoken to the drivers involved before rendering a judgment.

He accepted that the stewards had a difficult job to do and said that McLaren would keep an open dialogue with them on what happened.

“There is a lot to consider,” said Stella.

“The fact that today we had a situation that we have judged as a team as a severe penalty for one of our drivers, does not change our opinion that the FIA ​​and the delegates, they do difficult work, they try their best. I think they are doing their best to try to be consistent. There are many different scenarios, normally scripts that they change for certain subs. operating like a steward or a FIA team.

“It is always difficult to make the right calls. So what is important is that we continue dialogue, I think we will have a good conversation with the FIA ​​and with the stewards, and we will see how this situation could have been interpreted differently.

“What we said during the race was that we thought it was appropriate to discuss after the race, because I think we should have checked in detail the opinion of the drivers involved, and we should have verified why the security car was called so late, then set up all the evidence as the decision would be as fair as possible.”

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