The sanction is still present Carlos Sainz in Australia even though two weeks have already passed. In fact, this Wednesday it has been known that Ferrari has used the telemetry of its pilot and of Fernando Alonso to present his appeal to the FIA.
Former driver and F1 champion damon hill He believes that it is one of the most unfair sanctions that have been seen in recent times because “it occurred in a race that did not exist.” He expressed it this way in the official F1 podcast.
“Carlos Sainz’s five-second penalty in a race that did not exist, that affected the outcome of the race that happened before, I’m still scratching my head about it…” says Sainz.
He thinks the punishment should have been very different: “Maybe what they should have done is, instead of giving you a five-second penalty in a race that didn’t exist, they give you some penalty points“. That is, on the super license.
“How can you have affected a race that did not affect the score? Because in reality, it did not affect Fernando Alonso, he was back where he was“, insisted the champion of the Great Circus in 1996.
And he affirms that everything would have been different if the race management had not allowed Alonso to finish in third place: “If I had taken Fernando out of the raceDefinitely, the future career would have been affected.”
