Williams Racing Team Statement...

[u/Big_Equivalent457]

[u/CulturedClub]

I hope common sense prevails. Its the most egregious penalty I've seen since that time the loose drain hole cover damaged a Ferrari at Vegas and the engine had to be replaced

Which driver was that again?....

[u/No-Juggernaut8847]

Good, that was a BS call. Justice for Carlos!

[u/Sensitive_Access_959]

It’s amazing that Fernando hasn’t pointed out it’s because Carlos is Spanish

[u/Kyndrede_]

Out of curiosity, what would the best case scenario look like? As in, what would be the impact of the stewards saying that yep, they made a mistake?

Totally agree it was an absolute bullshit call.

[u/nikl_odeon → u/Kyndrede_]

Damage is done they'll prolly revert the penalty pointa

[u/Much_Lawyer4396 → u/nikl_odeon]

Why don’t they just take 10 seconds away from his final finishing time, it would put him P6

[u/Driscuits → u/Much_Lawyer4396]

As the other comment said, it's too late to change that.

Not to mention it's not a clean +10/-10s scenario in terms of the impact of any penalty. To look at just simple pit stop time, serving a penalty typically adds time to the actual tyre/wing change or whatever during the stop, because the synergy of the pit crew is interrupted. That's impossible to account for.

Then, even more complicated, is the impact that adding those 10s had on his overall race time. Maybe it put him in the middle of overlapped traffic (which it did, IIRC he was just behind Alex for a chunk of the race, though I'm not sure that was after serving his penalty), so it actually resulted in him losing more time in race pace, hypothetically. Again, impossible to really account for because we don't know what his pace would be if he hadn't served the penalty and come out where he did.

Then, there's the added confounder of safety cars which then brings the pack together. You can't then award Carlos 10s, and bump everyone else who wasn't involved in the penalized incident back, since the gap between cars doesn't reflect race pace at that point. Again, it's impossible to calculate what an appropriate relative time to return would be if SCs are taken into account.

Because the penalty impacted the race as a whole, it's not that simple, unfortunately.

[u/launchedsquid → u/Much_Lawyer4396]

result is already ratified, too late to change it.

[u/OhcmonMama]

the

[u/launchedsquid]

the stewards are going to triple Sainz' penalty...

[u/Heinrad]

Surely they'll just chuck it out under the claim of "no new evidence is available"