Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz came together on penultimate lap of Sunday’s race in battle for second, with both drivers forced to retire; McLaren now hold 20-point lead over Red Bull in Constructors’ Championship after Oscar Piastri win.
Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz have avoided penalties for their huge crash at the end of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after stewards ruled that neither driver was predominantly to blame.
The decision, released hours after the end of the race, came despite Perez’s assertion that Sainz deserved a penalty for causing a crash the Mexican said was a “disaster” for Red Bull’s championship ambitions.
On the penultimate lap of Sunday’s enthralling race, Sainz – after initially passing Perez at Turn 1 as he was pushed to the outside by the other Ferrari of Charles Leclerc in a battle for second – seemed to move left on the straight after Turn 2 towards the Red Bull, with the two cars then dramatically tangling into the barriers.
