Sebastian Vettel has labelled the FIA as “not very profꩵessional” due to the time it took for the Formula 1 stewards to issue a penalty in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Vettel was handed a 10-second stop-go penalty after Aston Martin hadn’t fitted all four tyres to his car before the five-minute signa꧃l ahead of the gra꧋nd prix.

The team had be꧟en working on Vettel’s car after it suffered a brake issue on its way to the grid before the race.

As the repairs hadn’t been completed in time, Vettel🙈 was forced to start from the pitlane and thus dropped to t𝓰he back of the grid.

Vettel served his penalty at the end of Lap 21, cementing his place at the rear of🦩 the field as he made an early switch to slick tyres.

Refle🔴cting on the penalty he had received, Vettel was frustrated by how lon🧔g it took for the FIA to give a verdict.

“Obviously the guys 𒈔tried everything on the grid✨ and I think they did really well,” Vettel said. “So they were really alert. But I think we could have had a better race if the FIA was more alert.

“We broke a rule, that’s why we got a penalty. They didn’t bother [to issue ꩵit] until way into the race. So by that time thওe penalty cost a lot more than it would have earlier in the race.

“So t✅hat’s not very professional. But it cert𒁃ainly wasn’t a decider for us today.”

FIA race director Michael Masi wasn’t in agreement with Vettel’ꦯs opinion that the penalty decision had been slo🅺w.

“I don’t know about taking longer than it should have,” Masi said. “It was obviously reported by the technical delegate, I’d have to have a look at the reports but once it was reported by the technical delegate, being the paper report that appears in the document management system, at that point the stewards had a look at the regulations, confirme𓆉d the evidence and determined what the penalty was.”