Not happy, not happy. Ferrari appealed Carlos Sainz's 5-second penalty at the Australian GP on Sunday, which pushed the Spaniard from fourth to twelfth place, out of the points. Sainz "was desperate on Sunday," Italian team boss Frédéric Vasseur said, "we have filed a request for a review of the decision. We sent it to the FIA."
This incident was catastrophic for Ferrari, who had already lost Charles Leclerc to an accident on the first lap of the race. Sainz was sanctioned for squeezing Fernando Alonso's Aston Martin and sending the former world champion head-to-head. Alonso, however, finished third in the race.
Vasseur calls for equal treatment
Ferrari believes Sainz was treated harder than Pierre Gasly, not sanctioned as he hooked Alpine teammate Esteban Ocon late in the race. Both Alpines had to retire.
"We hope to at least have an open discussion with them (the FIA authorities)," Vasseur said. It's also for the good of this sport, to avoid having this type of decision where you have three incidents on the same corner and not the same decision (...) We had the impression that the incident between Gasly and Ocon was handled a little differently."
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