s group principal James Vowles has admitted the Grove outfit should shoulder among the blame for the late-race collision between n and z on the Dutch Grand Prix.
Throughout a chaotic race at Zandvoort, received by McLaren's s, the 2 Williams drivers got here collectively on observe whereas battling exterior the points-paying positions.
Talking within the group's post-race video debrief, >, the Williams boss addressed the irritating incident.
"As you noticed, Alex and Carlos got here collectively on observe," Vowles defined. "There's loads of questions round whose fault it’s, whose isn't it? I'll begin with this. I believe with our two drivers, each have a duty to not hit one another.
"It's arduous to do it as a majority to at least one or the opposite, however each have a culpability in that. This explicit circumstance, really, I believe we as a group have a culpability."
The problem, based on Vowles, stemmed from the pitwall's choice to depart Sainz out on worn tyres through the digital security automobile interval.
"We tried leaving Carlos out at that VSC. The explanation why was as a result of had we stopped, he would have been behind Alex and Franco anyway. So that you're again web to the place you’d have been earlier than, with out the tempo to have the ability to overtake them.
James Vowles, Williams
"However that stated, this additionally put our automobiles right into a scenario the place they had been preventing tooth and nail for no factors on observe. That's not a scenario we needs to be placing them in both."
Whereas Albon retired from the race after the incident, Sainz went on to complete sixteenth.
Sainz was handed a 10-second penalty for the incident, which he described as "truthful" after the race.
"Honest penalty. I had a little bit of a shock once I went to defend," the Spaniard defined. "I had actually worn arduous tyres, struggling rather a lot with the automobile, with the tempo of the race.
"And once I went to brake on the within, there was an enormous bump on the within of Flip 1. If you end up additional within the inside, the larger it will get. I simply hit with the plank.
"I had the entrance tyres within the air. And as quickly as I touched the brake, I locked up and I took Alex with me, which is the worst doable end result for that race, as a result of it's not like we had been preventing for something large. However truthfully, it caught me a lot abruptly. Apologies to him, as a result of it's the very last thing I needed."
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