F1 sporting regulations are there to do justice. But sometimes, there are cases where the opposite is achieved. You can say it well Carlos Sainz at the F1 Las Vegas GP. The Spaniard received a penalty 10 places for the grill of Sunday’s race as he had to use his third battery of the year in his Ferrari as the previous one was damaged by an FP1 misaligned manhole cover accident in the middle of the straight, something that was the fault of the organisation. of Las Vegas or FIA GP. However, it was the man from Madrid who ended up paying the price.
“It’s deeply unfair. The battery issue is not a reliability problem. I’m surprised they haven’t been more understanding. But it is what it is. You can overtake here, we believe. The only doubt is that it’s a narrow. track. Yeah he’s got good rhythm, he’s got to come back”He said Marc GeneFerrari ambassador, in remarks to ‘DAZN F1’ when the Spaniard’s punishment was confirmed.
These penalties for changes of elements are included in the sports regulations with the aim of limiting the number of parts used by teams in their power units. Thus, the regulation penalizes the lower reliability of components. In this case, however, Sainz did not change the battery because of a reliability problem, but because of a serious error in the circuit and FIA inspections, something that should not have happened.
Knowing this, the commissioners took some time to give their verdict, in search of a tool that would allow them to avoid punishment for the Madrid native. But finally, the FIA published an official note from the stewards in which they made it clear that they had to keep Carlos’s penalty because they didn’t have anything in the regulations that would allow them to have enough authority to leave Carlos without penalty. .
The FIA’s reasons for penalizing Sainz
“The trustees determined that, even if the damage was caused by unusual external circumstances, Article 2.1 of the Formula 1 Sports Regulations obliges all officials, including stewards, to apply the regulations as written. Consequently, the mandatory sanction specified in article 28.3 of the Sporting Regulations shall be applied,” said the FIA.
“The delegates note that if they had the authority to grant a waiver in what they consider in this case to be extenuating, unusual and unfortunate circumstances, they would do so; however, the regulations do not allow the such action,” they remember That is, they make it clear that for ethical reasons, this battery change does not deserve punishment, but it is because of exactly what the regulations set, which do not think of those case like this Saturday because it is very unlikely to happen. . This happened to Carlos. He paid for it, without eating or drinking. Without any sin.
In this way, Carlos Sainz will not be able to make the most of the enormous speed of his car in Las Vegas. Ferrari is competing for pole position on Saturday and wants to make things difficult for Verstappen who at the moment has not started in a car higher than on other occasions. But everything became complicated for Carlos because of this punishment. He has to come back on Sunday.
Source: La Verdad
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