Pierre Gasly affords to talk to stewards after incident that price Kevin Magnussen a ban from the forthcoming Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
The pair have been battling for place within the second chicane after they touched, and whereas neither suffered any harm the stewards imposed a 10-second time penalty on the Dane and the much more damaging 2 penalty factors that introduced him as much as 12 in as many months thereby incomes an computerized ban.
“While the Haas had its entrance axle previous the mirror of the Alpine, the Driving Requirements Tips specify that an overtaking automotive has to ‘be pushed in a protected and managed method all through the manoeuvre’,” declared the Monza stewards, who decided that this was not the case for Magnussen who they deemed was wholly guilty for the collision.
“I am actually annoyed concerning the penalty,” mentioned Magnussen. “I do not perceive it in any respect. Flat-out, simply utterly confused.
“We raced onerous into Flip 4, we had slight contact, we each missed the nook, got here again on observe once more; no harm to the automotive, no consequence to the race for both of us, and I get a 10-second penalty.
“Then, Lap 1, Ricciardo and Nico, Ricciardo put Nico on the grass at 300km/h, utterly destroyed Nico’s race, huge consequence and harm to Nico’s automotive, and he will get a five-second penalty. The place’s the logic?”
“I am a bit shocked for that,” mentioned Gasly of the penalty. “He tried, but it surely was a little bit of wheel-to-wheel. It did not, ultimately, actually lose any time.”
Requested if he would possibly converse to the stewards on his rival’s behalf, he mentioned: “I will be blissful to do it. I will see what I can do, that may really feel very unfair for the incident that it was.”
In the meantime, Ricciardo, who clashed with Hulkenberg on the Ascari chicane on the opening lap, inflicting the Haas driver to run broad and lose a variety of positions, spoke to the German at race finish to elucidate the incident that price him a 5-second time penalty.
“I wished to only rapidly test in and see from his perspective,” mentioned the Australian. “I felt the hit, however I do not know; was half the automotive within the grass or did he simply drop the surface tyre and that locked him up on braking.
“Clearly I did not give him sufficient room, interval, so the least I can do is apologise,” he admitted. “I used to be additionally curious, how dangerous was it? I knew I used to be within the flawed, however was it one thing that he wished to punch my face in, or was it one thing that he was similar to ‘Yeah, you misjudged it by 10 centimetres’.
“Clearly he mentioned, ‘Yeah, you did not give me sufficient room’,” he revealed. “I additionally wished to ask, like, did I form of jerk throughout or did I simply progressively transfer throughout?
“I prefer to be aggressive, however I am not soiled, so I wished to ensure, from his perspective; was it simply aggressive, or was I being a little bit of a prick?”
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