F1 2025 - Round 12 - England - Silverstone 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Silence says enough there when they showed the replay in the cool down room.

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Piastri is still a little bitter after he got the penalty at Silverstone today. He said to the media again later on after his initial post-race interview with Jenson Button that he worked hard on trying to win the race but got a result that he didn't deserve.

I don't know what to say about that one tbh. It seemed pretty clear to me at the time that the way in which Oscar had dropped his speed in the car had ultimately impeded Max after that restart from the safety car.

https://www.fia.com/system/files/decision-document/2025_british_grand_prix_-infringement-car_81-_safety_car_procedure.pdf

The Stewards reviewed positioning/marshalling system data, video, telemetry, teamradio and in-car video evidence.

When the clerk of the course had declared that the safety car was coming in that lapand the lights were extinguished, Car 81 suddenly braked hard (59.2 psi of brakepressure) and reduced speed in the middle of the straight between T14 and T15, from218 kph to 52 kph, resulting in Car 1 having to take evasive action to avoid a collision.This momentarily resulted in Car 1 unavoidably overtaking Car 81, a position whichhe gave back immediately.

Article 55.15 of the FIA Sporting Regulations required Car 81 to proceed at a pacewhich involved no erratic braking nor any other manoeuvre which is likely to endangerother drivers from the point at which the lights on the safety car are turned off.

What Car 81 did was clearly a breach of that article. In accordance with the penaltyguidelines, we imposed a 10 second time penalty to Car 81.

When they sit down to debrief, I think he'll probably realise it was the correct decision. I wouldn't have expected McLaren to have acknowledged that publicly at any stage during the race because it'd hamper them if they did decide to lodge a protest later on. As for Piastri asking to switch places, the tv broadcast has been know to cherry pick snippets of conversation to generate a narrative. I'd like to have heard the conversation either side of that quote for context. If his engineer is telling him that he was hard done by, I wouldn't hold it against him for asking the team to give him back the win that they'd been telling him he deserved.