🗣️'The frustration is probably more the fact that they took the decision in five minutes.' Ferrari F1 boss Fred Vasseur says that the FIA was wrong to penalise Carlos Sainz in Melbourne without first discussing his Fernando Alonso clash with him ⬇️
Sainz made contact with Alonso's Aston Martin at the second restart with two racing laps to go, which spun his fellow Spaniard around.
Sainz, who had recovered from losing out by pitting under the safety car brought out for Alex Albon's Turn 6 crash which then turned into a red flag that handed his rivals However, he was awarded a five-second penalty for causing a collision. Meanwhile, rival teams were able to tell their drivers to keep up in the safety car queue in order to take advantage. In the final classification, Sainz dropped out of the points in 12th place.
"And then we can speak about the incident, if it's a race incident or not. For me, it is the same lap one story. But the frustration is probably more the fact that they took the decision in five minutes."