“We’ve spoken already,” Sainz added. “[But] we have to analyse. I’m not somebody who desires to place blame on both an excuse or put blame on one other driver. It’s racing, all the things occurs super-fast.
“My feeling in the present day is actually I did nothing mistaken, I didn’t do any erratic manoeuvre, put him towards the wall or something like that. We had been simply, like each different lap, drifting a bit, a tiny, tiny little bit in direction of the left as a result of that’s the place the racing line is and we simply touched. It’s what it’s.”
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Perez reacted furiously over crew radio after the incident, labelling Sainz “an fool”. However the Mexican was extra measured as he entered the media pen, having spoken to the stewards after each drivers had been summoned to elucidate their components within the crash – which pressured a Digital Security Automobile, making certain McLaren’s Oscar Piastri of a second profession win, as he held off the sister Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
“I felt that exiting Flip 2, there was loads of room between each automobiles, and inside a metre or two, we ended up making contact,” stated Perez, forward of the stewards’ ruling that no additional motion was crucial. “It’s very unlucky. All of it occurred so shortly. I believe Carlos was making an attempt to comply with the tow from Charles as he went to the within and that basically made issues actually laborious.”
