FIA will investigate further the crash between Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton during the Azerbaijan Grand prix. The stewards handed a 10 seconds stop-go penalty to the Ferrari driver for dangerous driving. The federation will look at evidence during the next week. Later it will decide if further action is needed.
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The FIA statement said:
“The FIA will further examine the causes on the incident in order to evaluate whether further action is necessary”
“A statement regarding the outcome of this process will be made available before the upcoming Austrian Grand Prix.”
The reason for Vettel’s penalty during the race was pointed out by the Stewards as follows.
“The Stewards examined video evidence which showed that car 5 drove alongside and then steered into car 44. The Stewards decide this manoeuvre was deemed potentially dangerous.”
Hamilton did not agree the penalty was sufficient. He called on the radio before the finish of the race and said: “The 10-second penalty is not enough for driving behavior like that. You know that, Charlie (Whiting – the race director).”
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Vettel himself did not agree with the penalty. According to him Hamilton should have been penalized as well.
“The leader dictates the pace, but we were exiting the corner, he was accelerating and then he braked so much that I couldn’t stop in time and ran into the back of him. I think that was just not necessary. “In the end I don’t agree with the penalty that I got, because if you penalise me then you should penalise us both, because that was not the way to do it”, he said.
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