Lando Norris<\/a> in the title race.<\/p>\nSpeaking ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Sainz was outspoken about the stewards\u2019 decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we need urgently a catch-up and try and solve it, because for me the fact that Oscar got a penalty there in Brazil is unacceptable, honestly, for the category that we are in and being the pinnacle of motorsport,\u201d Sainz told reporters in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
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\u201cEveryone that\u2019s seen racing knows that that is not Oscar\u2019s fault at all, and everyone that\u2019s really raced a race car knows he could have done nothing to avoid an accident there and he got away with a 10-second penalty. For me it\u2019s something that I don\u2019t understand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t understand my Zandvoort penalty, I didn\u2019t understand why Ollie [Bearman] got a penalty when we both collided in Monza.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there\u2019s been not one but multiple incidents this year that for me are far from where the sport should be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Current process in F1 \u201cnot working\u201d<\/p>\n
New racing guidelines were introduced over the past 12 months following a number of incidents at the end of last year.<\/p>\n
As a result, the stewards have tried their best to follow them.<\/p>\n
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In Piastri\u2019s case, they felt he was out of control due to a lock-up at Turn 1, leading to a penalty.<\/p>\n
The general consensus from pundits was that it was a racing incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to judge, because it could go both ways,\u201d Sainz added. \u201cYou could criticise the way the guidelines are written and we ask the stewards to obviously apply those guidelines as firmly as possible and the stewards are just doing their job.<\/p>\n
\u201cOr are the guidelines [just] guidelines and the stewards should take them as guidelines and not as black or white? It could go both ways. I\u2019m not sure what the solution is, but it is very clear for me that after what I saw in Brazil, something is not quite working.\u201d<\/p>\n
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