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Colapinto questions consequence-based penalty for Lawson conflict
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Colapinto questions consequence-based penalty for Lawson conflict

By Miles Cooper October 29, 2024
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Franco Colapinto has conceded he “would not totally agree” with the stewards’ choice to punish him with a 10-second penalty for late-race contact with Liam Lawson in Method 1’s Mexico Grand Prix.

The Williams driver was trying a cross on his RB rival across the exterior of Flip 1 within the closing phases of the race when his rear proper wheel swiped the entrance wing from the New Zealander’s automobile.

Though working tight to the white line, Lawson was judged to have “defended aggressively” however he had “left simply sufficient room for Colapinto to stay on the observe”.

Regardless of the stewards reflecting that each drivers have been “compromised” for Flip 2 and “Colapinto extra so”, the truth that the Argentine had stayed on the facility by the left-hander led to the choice that he was predominantly responsible for the ensuing contact, which noticed Lawson pit because of his injury.

Requested for his view on the penalty, Colapinto instructed F1’s post-race present: “I do not totally agree.

“I feel it is one thing just like what occurred with Lando [Norris] and Max [Verstappen] in Austin. It is a kind of the place the driving force that’s inside pushes you off the observe.

“I used to be, I feel, barely forward on the apex and he braked on the final second and ran broad, pushing me off after which he broke his entrance wing alone.”

Colapinto questions consequence-based penalty for Lawson conflict

Franco Colapinto, Williams FW46

Picture by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Pictures

Providing a proof for why he believes he was sanctioned, Colapinto added: “I feel it is extra associated to what occurred to Liam that he broke his entrance wing. That isn’t my fault, they usually regarded extra at that consequence. That is why I acquired a penalty.

“So look, I feel stewards should not be wanting on the consequence of what occurred after the little incident.”

Lawson himself dismissed malice from Colapinto, telling Sky Sports activities F1: “I gave him house in Flip 2, he got here with plenty of velocity, greater than I used to be anticipating.

“I attempted to get out of it however caught his rear wheel. It is probably not his fault or something like that, I simply assume it was a slipshod incident.”

Colapinto completed the Mexico Grand Prix twelfth and remained on this place along with his penalty with Esteban Ocon too far again to capitalise, whereas Lawson was sixteenth after his repairs.

The incident which noticed Lando Norris gather a five-second penalty whereas battling Max Verstappen in Austin and the latter’s actions in Mexico – which resulted in a pair of 10-second penalties – have resulted in requires the rules surrounding overtaking and defending to be reviewed.

Modifications might be in place for the ultimate two rounds of the yr in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, with drivers set to debate protocols on the penultimate occasion.

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Including his ideas, Colapinto mentioned: “It is not one thing to complain [about].

“I feel the drivers must attempt to perceive what we will do higher, to not get these penalties that typically are very beneficial for the man who’s on the within and would not go away a lot room of what to do for the man on the surface.

“We simply must attempt to perceive that higher, as for all of us as drivers for these penalties to not be coming continually.”

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