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What could have ended in victory ends in a Fifth place, after the final penalty from the FIA to the Spaniard, once the MIami GP had concluded. Carlos Sainzwho passed Oscar Piastri a few laps before, but did not finish the action due to an illegal cut by the Australian, to take him off the track (which cost Magnussen several penalties on Saturday), was then penalized for rushing a later action and damaging the McLaren’s wing, when he should have gotten rid of that rival much earlier.
The disparity of criteria when evaluating face-to-face actions between the drivers on the grid is nothing new, and The man from Madrid must pay this time with 5 seconds applied to his final time, which takes away fourth place to give it to Czech Perez (author of a crash at the start), which leaves the Ferrari quinto final at the Miami GP.
The resolution
The stewards listened to the driver of car 81 (Oscar Piastri) and the driver of car 55 (Carlos Sainz), as well as the team representatives, and reviewed the video evidence
They determine that car 55 was passing car 81 in turn 17 when it slightly missed the rear end and collided with car 81. The collision caused damage to the front wing of car 81.
It was clear to us that car 55 was to blame for the collision. In the overtaking attempt, El 55 braked late, missed the apex and in the process lost its rear end, with the resulting collision. Although Car 81 was trying to turn to counter the overtake, it gave Car 55 enough space.
Under the circumstances, we consider car 55 to be the primary culprit for the collision. In this case, we take into account, as mitigating factors, the fact that, except for the slight loss of control of the rear by car 55, the collision probably would not have occurred and it would have been a tough but good fight.
The standard collision penalty is 10 seconds with 2 penalty points. Therefore, in light of the extenuating circumstances, a 5 second penalty with 1 penalty point is imposed.
Inconsistency in the text
Reading the terms of the research and the assessments, with phrases like. “if it hadn’t been for the slight loss of the back of the car”which only discards Carlos’s voluntariness, one can only conclude that he has entered the field of philosophy, instead of a simple car race.
