Carlos Sainz has questioned the “approach” taken by Liam Lawson to his style of racing in F1 following another collision between the pair in the Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Although Sainz was found at fault for the lap 27 incident that left both drivers forced to make immediate pit stops after sustaining punctures, the Williams driver was adamant post-race that it was Lawson who sparked the situation.<\/p>\n
Sainz was handed a 10-second penalty for what appeared to be a relatively minor brush at the time despite the consequences after the Spanish driver had made a move on Lawson around the outside of Turn 1 at a safety car restart on lap 27.<\/p>\n
As they emerged out of the right-handed loop, Lawson moved across in an attempt to cover off Sainz, leading to the left-rear of the former’s car clipping the front wing of the Williams.<\/p>\n
“It’s quite clear, in how many examples we’ve seen in Turn 1, of two cars racing side by side without contact,” said Sainz, speaking to the media, including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
“It’s a corner that allows two cars to race each other without having any unnecessary contact.<\/p>\n
“But with Liam, it always seems to be very difficult to make that happen. He always seems to prefer to have a bit of contact and risk a DNA or a puncture, like we did, than to actually accept having two cars side by side, which hopefully will come with more experience.<\/p>\n
“He knows he’s putting too many points on the line just for an unnecessary manoeuvre like he did.”<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tLawson warned to ‘pick your battles’<\/p>\n
Sainz made his feelings quite clear over the radio at the time. “He’s just so stupid,” he fumed. “Oh my God! This guy! It’s always the same guy.”<\/p>\n
That was with reference to an incident earlier this season when Lawson and Sainz’s team-mate Alex Albon collided at the Spanish GP, leading to the latter eventually retiring.<\/p>\n
\u00a0“I wasn’t even really trying to race Liam that hard,” continued Sainz.<\/p>\n
“I had a gap around the outside, and so I thought I’d start getting him a bit out of position for Turn 2, Turn 3. I wasn’t trying to pass him around the outside. I was just trying to have a side-by-side with him to then get a better line for Turn 2, Turn 3.<\/p>\n
“And then suddenly I have a contact which caught me completely off guard and by surprise.”<\/p>\n
Offering advice to Lawson, Sainz said: “You need to pick your battles, and Liam, in his first years now, has decided to have this approach. It’s something I’ll keep in mind.<\/p>\n
“It’s the story of my season so far, again, it was a race where I could have finished P5, where Alex did, 10 points but for something that I still cannot understand, that’s out of our hands.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz has questioned the “approach” taken by Liam Lawson to his style of racing in F1 following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-109721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}