Seidl: “No longer acceptable” F1 penalty machine puts Norris in relation to flee ban
The younger British driver’s sanction for forcing Sergio Perez huge at the Austrian Huge Prix skill he has now totted up 10 penalty aspects on his licence – with a driver being banned for an tournament in the occasion that they fetch to 12 aspects over a 12-month duration.
Even though Norris will lose two aspects ahead of the British Huge Prix, taking him succor down to eight, McLaren is no longer chuffed with the relate.
Seidl means that the licence machine wants a accurate stare upon, because it would possibly perhaps silent no longer be that drivers like Norris are prone to being banned thru the totting up of non-unhealthy strikes.
“From my point of interrogate, it wants a evaluation,” he acknowledged. “I feel all of us agree that for an incident like [in Austria] getting a flee ban as a consequence, can’t be the correct element.”
Seidl used to be removed from impressed relating to the choice by the FIA stewards for Norris to be given a penalty at the Pink Bull Ring for the incident with Sergio Perez.
And, in particular, he is baffled about why driver steward Derek Warwick didn’t look sense and rule it as accurate onerous racing.
“To be good I don’t realize why he gets a penalty there,” added Seidl. “That’s for me racing, and racing that all of us are desirous to gaze.
“I don’t think that Lando did one thing else execrable. It used to be in addition at the origin of the flee, the keep all americans desires to set up in first, and he used to be accurate going on his racing line.
“He didn’t finish one thing else uninteresting and didn’t finish some dive bombing or no matter. He used to be persistently parallel to him and even a runt bit sooner than Checo. So honestly, I don’t realize.
“I also don’t realize why, as an instance, a driver steward doesn’t carry extra right thru there, on what’s in actual fact going on there, on this vital flee lap for a flee driver. So it will be exciting what we hear from Michael [Masi] on this.”
In a reference to Masi explaining why Norris used to be punished at this yr’s Azerbaijan Huge Prix for no longer going straight into the pits when a purple flag came out – principles that all americans is aware of from karting – Seidl means that there are racing classes that drivers know since their junior times too.
“Speaking in Michael’s words, each walk-kart driver is aware of that whenever you walk there to the exterior in the principle flee lap, you are going to close up in the gravel,” explained Seidl. “You would possibly’t bitch relating to the guy that used to be on the racing line.
“It’s a shame, because it designate us potentially P2. But also to that, Lando gets two penalty aspects for one thing like that, which brings him again nearer to fetch a flee ban.
“To be good is one thing that wants additional notion overall, if it’s that acceptable machine that we’re having in position right here.”