The Formula 1 contention manager has defended the determination not to penalise Daniel Ricciardo for the archetypal country mishap that ruined his race, on with that of Valtteri Bottas, astatine the Mexico City Grand Prix.
Ricciardo mislaid his beforehand helping successful the collision, which spun Bottas around, with some drivers dropping to the backmost of the tract aft being forced to pit.
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It made for a agelong day for the pair, who could some person easy been successful the apical five. Instead, Ricciardo finished 12th and Bottas 15th.
Many questioned wherefore Ricciardo wasn't penalised for the incident, with Karun Chandhok reporting connected Sky Sports that Mercedes was "livid" with the call.
The contention director, Australian Michael Masi, has backed the determination not to analyse the collision.
"I asked the stewards to person a speedy look, and they determined that nary probe was necessary," helium said.
"Basically they person a speedy look, if it is worthy of an probe oregon not, and their presumption was determination was nary probe necessary."
The information Ricciardo wasn't sanctioned has drawn comparisons with an incidental astatine the Turkish Grand Prix earlier this year, erstwhile AlphaTauri operator Pierre Gasly was fixed a 5 2nd penalty, and 2 points connected his licence, aft spinning Fernando Alonso astatine Turn 1.
"I don't deliberation determination is simply a deficiency of consistency due to the fact that you person to dainty everything connected its merits," Masi explained.
"You've got to look astatine each incidental and spot however it goes. For starters Turkey was wet, this was dry, and wholly antithetic country configurations. There's a full batch of things, truthful I don't deliberation determination is [a similarity to Mexico].
"Having a look astatine the proximity of the cars, of wherever they each are compared to each other. There is simply a full batch of antithetic factors that travel into it.
"So the stewards' presumption connected this juncture [in Mexico] it was that successful their presumption it was a Turn 1 racing incident."
Ricciardo initially accepted the blasted for the crash, but connected studying the replay, changed his tune.
"My representation of Turn 1 was that evidently I had a precise bully start, and it was looking beauteous good," said Ricciardo.
"I went to the wrong of [Sergio] Perez and I bash retrieve locking astatine 1 point. Replaying it successful my caput implicit the adjacent 70 laps, I thought I locked and went up into Valtteri. So I was benignant of evidently kicking myself.
"But past looking astatine the replay, it looked similar I locked successful the straightline signifier and past really recovered earlier turning in. And it looked similar determination was conscionable not capable room.
"Obviously Valtteri came across, astir apt expecting to person a spot of wide track, and past determination was Perez and me. So I don't truly blasted Valtteri, obviously.
"I'm the 1 that deed him. But honestly, looking astatine the replay, I conscionable deliberation it's a archetypal thigh incidental and a substance of possibly maine being optimistic."
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