Carlos Sainz handed ‘ridiculous’ 10-place grid penalty after drain cover crash at Las Vegas Grand Prix

The Ferrari driver hit a loose manhole cover bringing the opening practice session to a halt in Las Vegas

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“The Stewards note that if they had the authority to grant a derogation in what they consider in this case to be mitigating, unusual and unfortunate circumstances, they would have done so, however the regulations do not allow such action.”

Hopefully the FIA can step in and override this by tomorrow, seems like everyone would be on board
- Yeah this isn't a wonderful look for the sport. Other drivers, team strategy, etc., are part of the hazards. Shit tracks, however, shouldn't be.
- The damage was a result of poor track inspection and quality. Ferarri and Carlos should not pay the price for repairing the damage DIRECTLY caused by the track.
- The FIA can change the regulations sure. But retroactively applying them would be another issue. Without thinking about the can of worms such a rule change would bring.
  
  Just make an exception. Have the teams weigh in. rigid rules break the sport.
Wow, that's just insane.
Common sense ain’t so fucking common these days. Rules is rules is a shit response.
A rule is a rule and
Was it really necessary to change the engine though?
- @Summzashi @formula1 Pretty sure it was, but I'm not a mechanic
That is complete insanity. Vegas was already getting enough heat, this is just makes it so much worse

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