Williams has succeeded in his attempts to let the stewards withdraw the fine given to Carlos Sainz because they collide in the Dutch Prix of Liam Lawson.
Sainz originally received a fine of 10 seconds and two penalty points on his license for causing a collision with Lawson, because both drivers took leaky tires when Sainz’s right Front Lawson’s left side hit the back of the exit 1 near Zandvoort. Sainz was vocal on team radio and after the race about the punishment, stating that he would try to speak with the stewards afterwards.
During last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix, Williams confirmed that it had submitted a request for the right to revise the incident, and had to prove that it had new, relevant and important evidence to reassemble the penalty again.
A hearing to discuss the case took place on Friday, where the stewards that accepted the threshold was satisfied to revise the penalty, because Williams could offer a 360-degree camera from Sainz’s car and backwards-oriented camera corner of Lawson’s that were not available at the time of the decision. Those corners were considered new, relevant and important.
The stewards rejected the fact that Sainz’s testimony also acted as an element that would meet the threshold as “the stewards have the power and authority to make a decision without hearing a director” and does not substantially contribute to the evaluation of an incident on top of the available video evidence. However, the camera corners resulted in the assessment of the assessment.
During the next fine hearing, Williams argued that the collision should be considered a racing incident, because Lawson caught a Snap-Mid-Corner who led to the contact. The report states that the representatives of Williams “have taken the effort to make it clear that they did not suggest that the driver of Auto 30 [Lawson] should be punished just that the punishment for car 55 [Sainz] Was wrong. ‘
When withdrawing the fine, the stewards explained that the new camera branches were satisfied that the collision was caused by a temporary loss of control by Lawson.
“In the assessment of the stewards, however, no driver was completely or mainly the fault of that collision,” added the stewards. “Auto 55 contributed to the incident by taking the risk of driving close, and on the outside, car 30 when car 55 was not entitled to room there and there was a real possibility that if the collision had not taken place where it did, car 55 would be without a collision with the exit.
The time penalty of ten seconds that was handed over to Sainz could not be deleted because it was already served during the race. However, the two penalty points that Sainz was given were withdrawn.
“We are grateful to the stewards for assessing the penalty of Carlos Zandvoort and are pleased that they now decided that he had not failed and that this was a racing incident,” said a statement by Williams. “Although it is frustrating that our race was affected by the original decision, mistakes are part of motor racing and we will continue to work constructively with the FIA ​​to improve the steward processes and to assess the racing rules for the future.”
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