Sainz stated there had been plenty of incidents this yr during which drivers had been penalised for incidents that didn’t justify a penalty, together with three involving him with Racing Bulls’ Liam Lawson within the Dutch Grand Prix, with Haas driver Oliver Bearman in Italy and Antonelli in Austin.
“I did not perceive my Zandvoort penalty,” Sainz stated, on media day earlier than this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
“I did not perceive why Ollie obtained a penalty after we each collided in Monza. He was not deserving of that penalty and I informed him straight out of the race. I did not perceive how I caught a 10-second in Austin. After which the Brazil state of affairs.
“There’s been not one however a number of incidents this yr that for me are removed from the place the game ought to be.”
The drivers are to have a gathering with stewards from the FIA on the subsequent race in Qatar to undergo what Sainz’s team-mate Alex Albon known as the “listing” of incidents they really feel want reviewing.
Sainz stated: “It is vitally clear for me that, after what I noticed in Brazil, it is one thing that is not fairly working if we needed to choose that as a 10-second penalty for the man that had no fault for something that he did.”
The difficulty is the best way stewards interpret the driving standards’ guidelines, external issued by the FIA at the beginning of the yr.
These had been written following session with the drivers however weren’t accepted by the GPDA earlier than publication.
The final feeling amongst drivers is that the rules are being utilized strictly, with out the applying of widespread sense and expertise of how wheel-to-wheel racing labored.
Piastri was penalised as a result of he didn’t always adjust to the requirement to have his entrance axle at the very least alongside Antonelli’s wing mirror within the lead-up to the incident, and had locked his brakes so was deemed to be uncontrolled.
However Sainz stated he “struggled” with the best way stewards interpreted a locked brake.
“At any time when we see a lock-up, a steward instantly interprets that as uncontrolled,” he stated. “A lock-up not at all times means uncontrolled. You possibly can lock up and nonetheless make the apex.
“I locked up in Austin in response to a transfer that Kimi did and Oscar locks up in Brazil in response too.
“It is not like we had been uncontrolled and we had been going to overlook the apex crash and create an enormous accident. So I feel the best way these lock-ups are interpreted when it comes to uncontrolled I feel can be one thing that have to be reviewed.”
Mercedes’ George Russell, a fellow GPDA director, stated: “There is a little bit of a wording, or a view, that if a automobile is locking up it is deemed to be uncontrolled.
“This nook in Brazil is completely cambered into the nook, the within of the automobile is at all times going to be unloaded and that tyre shouldn’t be even on the bottom, in order that tyre is locking however you are completely in management.
“In order that’s why it must be tips and you must deal with each single nook, each circuit, each incident completely completely different.”
Russell stated the FIA ought to introduce a everlasting set of stewards to enhance the state of affairs.
Albon added: “There is no ignorance in (the FIA’s) strategy to it. There may be an open-minded ‘OK, please, let’s work on this collectively and discover a answer.’
“It is not this ‘you versus us’ strategy. We do admire that as drivers. Will it come to a transparent rule set? I am unsure.”
