'It is frustrating and unfair.'
Lando Norris felt it was “unfair” how the FIA rulebook allowed Carlos Sainz to reclaim his P3 position in Monaco, while McLaren boss Andrea Stella called him “lucky Carlos” for that and escaping punishment after damaging Oscar Piastri’s car.picking up a puncture in the process and coming to a stop which promoted Piastri’s team-mate Norris to P3, or so he thought.Further chaos unfolded behind as Sergio Perez was involved in a huge shunt with the two Haas cars, triggering the red flags.
“When you think of it in just a blunt way, it is frustrating and unfair, that because someone makes a mistake and because of a certain amount of cars or whatever, whatever the rule is, didn’t cross the line before the red flag and blah, blah, that he gets to undo that mistake and gets a free pit stop. It’s unfair.
“In terms of the way in which the restart order was determined, I think what the FIA did was the best thing to do,” Stella admitted. “I think he was lucky today and also with the lenient approach from the stewards, because the collision in corner one obviously created significant damage to Oscar’s car – and this summed up yesterday’s impeding .“We are happy for him but especially with yesterday impeding, we are still a little puzzled as to what the difference was between yesterday and Imola.”
“I mean, it’s never like that much going on in Monaco, but I think also the red flag simplifies things and made things even less action packed than whatever it normally is in Monaco,” Norris told Sky F1. “It was cuspy and there was those little opportunities,” said Norris, “but at the same time, if you have a slightly slow stop or something, just wasn’t worth it.
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