The pilot was waiting for him and almost everyone was waiting for him, after the Hamilton maneuver that was quite exaggerated as appropriate, at the end of the Q2. The English took the rebuild of Carlos Sainz, who had finished his best round, which left him 12th in Parilla, although his options to improve were scarce and although he was already inside the Q3, so he did not mean sports damage to him. But the mitigating not having been warned by radio by the team did not exonerate the Spanish.
The resolution of the commissioners was clear and confirmed in the official statement:
“Decision:” 3 positions on the output grid for the next race in which the pilot participates.
Reason: The commissioners listened to the driver of car 55 (Carlos Sainz) and the team representatives, and reviewed the data of the positioning/command system, the video, the radio of the equipment and the video tests of the car.
The 55 car was in an entrance return after having completed a thrust return when the 44 car began its thrust return, and it had to get out of the track to dodge it in curve 1.
The 55 car pilot declared that the team did not warn him of the approach of car 44 in a thrust turn. He declared that he caught him completely by surprise and that, due to the approximation speed of car 44 and at the angle of his car, he could not see him for the mirrors.
However, despite the above, the team had enough notice that car 44 was in an exit return while car 55 was in its thrust. In addition, more than 8 seconds passed since it was evident that car 44 was not going to enter boxes and, therefore, was going to start a thrust turn, until the 55 car could have taken the appropriate measures even if the team had warned him. “
Output grid in Japan, after the sanction to Sainz.formula1.com
Falls to 15th and Alonso improves
After the sanction, the grill is reordered and Carlos will leave 15º to the race, on a clue where to advance is even complicated in rain and Fernando Alonso wins a place to climb to the 12th, which will have the points closer.