Sainz lost fourth place. The stewards punished him for the collision with Piastre – F1sport.cz

Carlos Sainz lost fourth place. The sports commissioners gave him a 5 second penalty after the race for the collision with Piastri.

After a 5 second penalty, Sainz fell behind Pérez.

“The stewards interviewed the driver of car 81 (Oscar Piastri), the driver of car 55 (Carlos Sainz), team representatives and reviewed video footage and determined that car 55 was passing car 81 at Turn 17 when it slightly lost the rear of the car and collided with car 81 ,” said the sports commissioners in their minutes.

“The result of the collision was damage to the front wing of car 81. It was clear to us that car 55 was at fault for the collision. In an attempt to overtake, car 55 braked late, missed the apex of the turn and in the process lost the rear of the car, resulting in the collision.”

“Although car 81 tried to swerve to avoid an overtaking attempt, car 81 gave car 55 enough space.”

According to the sports commissioners, Sainz bore the majority of the blame for the collision and therefore received a penalty. On the other hand, they also found extenuating circumstances.

“In this case, we took into account as mitigating circumstances the fact that, but for the slight loss of control over the rear of car 55, the collision probably would not have occurred and
it would be hard but good racing.”

“The standard collision penalty is 10 seconds and 2 penalty points. Therefore, taking into account the mitigating circumstances, we impose a time penalty of 5 seconds with 1 penalty point.”