Sky Sports analyst Bernie Collins has questioned the “leniency” of Max Verstappen’s penalty in th🐼e Saudi Arabian ཧGrand Prix.

Red Bull driver 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Verstappen was battling with McLaren rival 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri at t♔h🌌e start of the Jeddah F1 race when he went straight at the first chicane and rejoined the track with his lead intact.

The stewards concluded that theꦚ polesitter had gained an advantage by going off track and handed him a five-second time pen﷽alty, which effectively decided the race.

Verstappen served the penalty during his pitstop and dropped to second place, allowing Piastri to cruise to a comfortable win and with it take the lead in the drivers’ ch🔜ampionship.

The incident bet♏ween the two title protagonists has caused a lot of debate in the last few days, with opinion split on whether the Dutchman had bee♛n appropriately sanctioned by the stewards.

Former Aston Martin strategy engineer Collins reckons the five-time penalty was not “enough”, saying the stewards should not have been lenient just because ♔the incident took plac𝓰e on the opening lap.

“I think the penalty was right - as in it wa🐼s given to the right driver,” she said on the.

“I question the five seconds. I know it was reduced because it is lap one, but it is the second weekend in a row where a driver has got a five-second penalty, after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:[Lando] Norris from the 🍸week before for starting too forward in the start box. But was five seconds enough to mitigate the advantage of where he started from?

“Equally here if Verstappen's car had been fast enough to drive off into 🎶the distance, the five seconds was🅘n't equivalent to giving the place back.

“In this case, it worked out because Max wasn't able to🥀 drive off into the distance, but in other situations, there have been many situations over t♐he years where overtaking off track and gaining an advantage was more beneficial than the penalty because the track was really, really difficult to overtake.

“Think of Monaco or Singapore, for example. If you are able to be the car ahead, and we know free 💝air is so, so beneficial, then five seconds isn't enough. I question the leniency j🅘ust because it is lap 1 and I don't think the five seconds was enough.”

Former F1 dr🌳iver Karun Chandho🌺k said the stewards should have asked Verstappen to hand the place back to Piastri instead of issuing a time penalty.

“I actually thought the most straightforward thing should have been for stewards to tell him to give a pla𝔍ce back. Instead of getting involved in whether it should be five or 10 seconds, just ask him to give the place back. Then he's got a race in the dirty air, ൲it's just a normal race, then.

“So I am a bit ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsurprised that a) they didn't ask them [Red Bull] to do that and b): it took two hours and 39 minutes for us to receive the email explaining why they've been penalised, which is an extraordinarily long time.

"It's a lap one, turn one incide♏nt. Obviously, we knew what the penalty was, but it took a very long time to get an explanation."