Charles Sainz believes that a crash in qualifying should always result in a penalty, whether intentional or not. The Spaniard believes that the competition is too disadvantaged and hopes that rules and penalties will be drawn up for such an incident in the future.
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend is on the cards, but not before the São Paulo race is still being worked out. The big story was the team’s die order Red Bull Racing had given in, but also the rumor that had spread afterwards. Sergio Pérez has been accused of deliberately crashing in Monaco qualifying to gain an advantage. Before the Abu Dhabi race, Sainz says that a crash in qualifying, intentional or not, should always be penalised.
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“Or that [Monaco] whether it’s on purpose or not, as drivers we want rules for that. If a red or yellow flag causes something, then something must be done, for it to ruin the lap of the other nine riders, so there must be a penalty”, the Spaniard begins. According to him, the danger is that the riders always “Otherwise we will all use it and I have seen many times over the years it has been used, more than what the media has shown,” says Sainz.
Sanctions
The winner of the single race wants to build a deterrent with a heavy penalty. “All twenty pilots immediately realize whether something like this was accidental or on purpose. I won’t comment specifically at that point [Monaco]because it is in the past. If there was a rule, something like that wouldn’t even occur to you” Sainz said. He also thought about a number of possible penalties: “Then you can think about taking the lap time or three or five penalty positions. “
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