Oscar Piastri believes he deserved greater than second place within the British Grand Prix after being hit by a security automobile penalty that price him victory.
The stewards gave Piastri a 10s time penalty for braking erratically on the ultimate security automobile restart, when he slowed in entrance of Max Verstappen and the Pink Bull driver went previous him. Within the determination, the stewards wrote:
“When the clerk of the course had declared that the Security Automotive was coming in that lap and the lights have been extinguished, Automotive No. 81 all of the sudden braked arduous (59.2 psi of brake stress) and lowered pace within the center of the straight between Flip 14 and Flip 15, from 218kph to 52kph, leading to Automotive No. 1 having to take evasive motion to keep away from a collision.
“This momentarily resulted in Automotive No. 1 unavoidably overtaking Automotive No. 81, a place which he gave again instantly.
“Article 55.15 of the FIA Sporting Rules required Automotive No. 81 proceed at a tempo which concerned no erratic braking nor another maneuver which is more likely to endanger different drivers from the purpose at which the lights on the Security Automotive are turned off.”
Piastri says the lights solely went out as he hit the brakes, and so it was an identical situation to earlier laps when he was warming brakes behind the protection automobile.
“I hit the brakes,” Piastri stated. “On the identical time I did that, the lights on the protection automobile went out, which was additionally extraordinarily late. Clearly I did not speed up as a result of I can management the tempo from there. You noticed the outcome. I did not do something in a different way to my first restart, I did not go any slower, I did not do something in a different way, so a disgrace.
“Clearly hurts for the time being. It is a totally different harm, although, as a result of I do know I deserved much more than what I bought at this time. I felt like I drove a extremely robust race. Finally, when you do not get the outcome you suppose you deserve, it hurts, particularly when it is not in your management.
“I believe it was a extremely, actually good day – an identical race to 12 months in the past and a really totally different end result for the entire staff. The entire staff did a extremely good job. The automobile was clearly mega, and giving myself credit score, I really feel like I did job at this time. It simply makes it extra painful when you do not win.”
Piastri says he didn’t count on McLaren to impose staff orders to swap the positions once more after his penalty, regardless of a request for the staff to take action if it felt the punishment was unfair.
“I assumed I might ask the query,” he stated. “I knew what the reply was going to be earlier than I requested, however I simply wished a small glimmer of hope that perhaps I might get it again. I knew it wasn’t going to occur.
“Do not suppose there’s something flawed with [McLaren denying the request]. Lando did not do something flawed. I do not suppose it might have been notably truthful to have swapped, however I assumed I would not less than ask. It does not change a lot for the championship. I really feel like I did job at this time; I did what I wanted to. That is all I would like, and I’ll use the frustration to verify I win some extra races later.”
