FREE ENTRY<\/a><\/p>\nHowever, the 10-second penalty couldn\u2019t be rescinded as it was served in-race, meaning there was no change to the final classification.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Stewards agree with Williams\u2019 characterisation of the collision as a racing incident,\u201d read the FIA report.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Stewards are satisfied that the collision was caused by a momentary loss of control by Car 30 [Lawson]. However, in the Stewards\u2019 assessment, no driver was wholly or predominantly to blame for that collision.<\/p>\n
\u201cCar 55 [Sainz] contributed to the incident by taking the risk to drive close to, and on the outside of, Car 30 when Car 55 had no right to room there and there was a real possibility that, if the collision had not occurred where it did, Car 55 would run out of track at the exit and\/or a collision would have occurred at the exit for which the Driver of Car 55 would likely be predominantly if not wholly to blame.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe time penalty imposed by the Decision was served by Car 55 during the race. The Stewards have no power to remedy that served time penalty by amending the Classifications but note that the gap between Car 55 to the car ahead in the Final Classification of the race (coincidently Car 30) was 17 seconds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Decision having been rescinded, it follows that the 2 penalty points imposed on the Driver of Car 55 are to be removed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams issued a statement after the decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are grateful to the stewards for reviewing Carlos\u2019 Zandvoort penalty and are pleased they have now decided he was not at fault and that this was a racing incident,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile it is frustrating that our race was compromised by the original decision, mistakes are part of motor racing and we will continue to work constructively with the FIA to improve stewarding processes and review the racing rules for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
F1 continues on September 19-21 with the Azerbaijan Grand Prix at Baku.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williams will get a right of review for the incident between Carlos Sainz and Liam Lawson at Zandvoort.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5703,5704,111,139,69,213,13971],"class_list":["post-21057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-carlos-sainz","tag-liam-lawson","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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