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Carlos Sainz was issued a 10-second time penalty at the Dutch Grand Prix, a decision one F1 champion disagrees with.
1997 F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve harshly criticized the race stewards for penalizing Carlos Sainz at the Dutch Grand Prix. Sainz’s overtake attempt around the outside of Liam Lawson resulted in contact and damage to both cars. Despite Lawson sliding into Sainz, the penalty was issued to Sainz, which Villeneuve found unjust and embarrassing for the FIA. Villeneuve questioned the stewards’ decision-making, accusing them of being too lenient on penalties for incidents that do not involve bad or dangerous driving. He suggested that penalties should be reserved for genuinely reckless maneuvers, not regular racing incidents that occur on the edge of competition. Villeneuve even went as far as to suggest that the stewards’ decisions seemed arbitrary, comparing it to rolling a dice to determine who gets penalized.
