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<\/a><\/p>\nCarlos Sainz, James Vowles, Dutch GP 2025
\u00a9 Williams<\/p>\n
Without a Ferrari seat for 2025 and overlooked by the other top teams too, Sainz’s patience appeared to be turning into rage after the Dutch GP.<\/p>\n
Today, the story of my season, he scowled after finishing outside the points.<\/p>\n
I’m starting to get really angry, because another weekend I’m going fast, another weekend I was ahead of Alex (Albon) once again, and you see Alex finish P5 and me finish outside the points when I was ahead.<\/p>\n
The flashpoint came in a clash with Racing Bulls’ Liam Lawson, who earlier this year was dropped by Red Bull’s senior team.<\/p>\n
Sainz was hit with a 10-second penalty – a decision he labelled the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my life.<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s about picking battles better, he told DAZN. “It’s clear that Lawson isn’t someone you can even attempt going wheel to wheel with. <\/p>\n
Honestly, I wasn’t even trying to overtake, I was forcing him to close me up so he could get a bit on dirty tyres, and from there I had a chance on the next lap. Yet he decided it was better to open the wheel and crash than to just hold it.<\/p>\n
Sainz contrasted Lawson with the top drivers he has raced in the recent past.<\/p>\n
There are drivers with whom you can go wheel to wheel with – Checo, Fernando, Gasly, Verstappen, Leclerc, Piastri, he said. With Liam, it’s not the first time this has happened with him in this category, but it is what it is.<\/p>\n
He went further in comments to Spanish newspaper El Mundo Deportivo, accusing the New Zealander of seizing an opportunity to put a driver out. <\/p>\n
Asked if Lawson was a dirty driver, Sainz replied: No, but he prefers contact to being overtaken.<\/p>\n
As for the stewards’ call, he was similarly scathing. <\/p>\n
“That the driver on the outside is now a passenger in response to what the driver on the inside decides to do seems unbelievable and makes no sense at all. Someone has to explain this to me. <\/p>\n
What I believe I suffered today worries me for myself but also for motorsport in general. To give a penalty to the guy on the outside, who has nothing to do with the collision, seems outrageous to me and a brutal lack of coherence.<\/p>\n
Sainz, newly installed as a director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, vowed to take the matter further. I think that as director of the GPDA, it obviously worries me, it worries me a lot, he said. <\/p>\n
I will go to the FIA and I will have them explain it to me.<\/p>\n
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