After collision
Formula 1 star escape to opponents: “He is so stupid”
01.09.2025 – 4:26 pmReading time: 2 min.
Carlos Sainz and Liam Lawson came too close to the race in Zandvoort. Sainz found clear words about his opponent – but was punished himself.
Williams driver Carlos Sainz experienced a Sunday at the Grand Prix of the Netherlands. At the course in Zandvoort, the Spaniard had actually started in a promising position for points. But with an overtaking maneuver against Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson.
Sainz started an attempt to overtake, but Lawson’s car also pressed it out in the curve. There was touch. Sainz suffered damage to the front wing, his opponent from New Zealand. Both had to go to the box and fell far back. In the end, Sainz came to 13th place and thus outside the points.
Sainz saw the fault for the collision at Lawson and found clear words about his opponent: “He is just so stupid. Oh my god,” he sparked on his team. “This guy, it’s always the same type,” continued Sainz. The Williams pilot thus referred to a history of hard maneuvers and the resulting accidents that Lawson has already accumulated in Formula 1 in a very short time.
Sky expert Ralf Schumacher also saw the fault at Lawson and expected a punishment against the 23-year-old. But it turned out differently: the racing commissioners saw the fault of Sainz and took him with a ten-second penalty and two penalty points on your racing license.
When Sainz was informed about the punishment by radio, he could hardly believe it: “Who? Who got a punishment? I? I? You are joking! That is the most ridiculous decision that I have noticed in my life!” He showed himself horrified.
The racing commissioners justified as follows: “The front wheel of Auto 55 (Sainz, editor’s note) was not in front of Auto 30 (Lawson, editor). Auto 55 tried to stay outside, and it came to the collision.