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Home » Charlie Whiting defends Sebastian Vettel’s penalty following Hamilton criticism

Charlie Whiting defends Sebastian Vettel’s penalty following Hamilton criticism. Sebastian served his five-second time penalty during his second pit stop.

Charlie Whiting, the FIA Formula One Race Director, Safety Delegate, Permanent Starter and head of the F1 Technical Department, has recently confirmed that the penalty which Scuderia Ferrari German driver Sebastian Vettel received in the French Grand Prix was consistent with past penalties handed down for similar incidents.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton criticised the decision to give Sebastian a five-second penalty for colliding with Valtteri Bottas. The Maranello team’s driver was still able to finish ahead of Bottas despite the penalty, Hamilton noted: “Ultimately when someone destroys your race through an error and it’s only kind-of a tap on the hand really. [He’s] just allowed to come back and still finish ahead of the person that they took out, it doesn’t weigh up. He shouldn’t really be able to finish ahead of him, because he took him out of the race.”

Charlie Whiting said the stewards do not take the consequences of an incident into consideration and Sebastian Vettel’s penalty was consistent with others which had been handed down before: “[The stewards] had four options open to them. A five-second penalty, 10-second, drive-through or stop-go. They chose the five-second penalty which is consistent with other incidents of that sort. If you look at the consequences of an incident then maybe one could think differently. But stewards attempt not to do that.” – the FIA Formula One Race Director concluded.

Sebastian Vettel served his five-second time penalty during his second pit stop and finished 18 seconds ahead of Bottas. He was also given two penalty points on his licence which brings him up to a total of five for the current 12-month period.

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