Penalties for Ferrari, the latest announcement shakes Formula 1

Ferrari tastes bitter. Two weeks after the Miami Grand Prix in Maranello, certain decisions have not yet been digested

Ferrari doesn’t fit and goes on the attack. While the Formula 1 Circus is busy with the highly anticipated Imola Grand Prix, the Maranello team does not yet seem to have accepted what happened in Miami two weeks ago. The reference is to some decisions taken by the race commissioners at the end of the Florida Grand Prix.

What triggered the Prancing Horse’s anger was what happened approximately three hours after the end of the race. While Carlos Sainz was in fact penalized five seconds due to the overtaking carried out against Oscar Piastri, Sergio Perez he received no penalty despite a mad attempt to pass at the first corner.

In the case involving the Mexican Red Bull driver, no contact occurred and it is for this reason that he did not suffer any type of penalty. But the stewards’ decisions still sent the entire Maranello family into a rage he did not digest the sanction imposed on Sainz. And it is obviously the Spanish driver who is the angriest of all.

“In Miami at the first corner I arrived second and to avoid Perez I came out fourth: this changed the whole race. Sometimes indeed I don’t understand what the FIA ​​is doing – Sainz’s anything but conciliatory words -. Perez arrived clearly out of control and that wrong braking is much worse than what I did, but one gets penalties and the other doesn’t.”

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Among other things, due to the five-second penalty that was inflicted on him, Carlos Sainz lost one position in the standings of the Miami grand prix, dropping from fourth to fifth place.

Sainz’s anger is widely shared and understood by the entire coaching staff of the Prancing Horse who feels a clear sense of injustice and unequal treatment. There is no explicit discussion about it at Ferrari, but many have the feeling that Red Bull has asserted its political influence in this matter.

A scenario that Maranello fears could be repeated later in the season, but in the meantime Frederic Vasseur prefers to focus on the growth and development of the SF-24 which could provide great satisfaction between now and the end of the season.

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