Sainz: Monaco rule too easy to manipulate

MONACO - A rules tweak for the Monaco Grand Prix teased play and chaos but yet near Formula 1's drivers bored, aggravated oregon frustrated, with Carlos Sainz saying the caller format was excessively casual for teams to "manipulate."

Monaco's contention was loaded with jeopardy successful the aboriginal stages with a mandatory two-stop minimum imposed connected each driver, successful a bid to spice up the spectacle.

But the last merchandise was small antithetic to erstwhile years, with small overtaking and a finishing bid mostly successful enactment with the qualifying effect from Saturday.

Williams' Sainz, who finished 10th, said: "I think, ultimately, the athletics should look astatine a mode wherever manipulating a contention result with the gait shouldn't beryllium allowed, erstwhile it's arsenic evident arsenic it was today."

Asked connected Sunday evening if F1 should persist, seven-time satellite champion Lewis Hamilton said: "Definitely. They request to support connected trying with this one. [But] it felt precise akin to the erstwhile time."

Many successful the paddock suggested F1 tin tighten up loopholes successful the two-stop format going forward.

Coming into the weekend, teams had identified the anticipation of utilizing their 2 drivers to enactment unneurotic to unafraid points.

Red Bull sister squad Racing Bulls did truthful astir effectively, with Liam Lawson dramatically backing up the tract successful bid aboriginal to efficaciously springiness teammate Isack Hadjar 2 escaped pit-stops owed to the wide way near betwixt them.

Hadjar finished sixth and Lawson managed to decorativeness eighth, up of Williams brace Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz.

Lawson's tactics had forced some Williams drivers to besides dilatory close down, prompting squad boss James Vowles to apologise to Mercedes brag Toto Wolff during the lawsuit arsenic George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli got stuck behind.

"[We were] 4 seconds disconnected the gait astatine immoderate stages of the race," helium said. "Ultimately, we were victims archetypal from Lawson, that managed to suffer 40 seconds, to Isack, 2 pit stops that Isack could bash successful beforehand of us. We were victims of that situation, we had to, successful the end, bash the aforesaid happening arsenic Lawson did, some times with Alex and myself, to marque definite we brought the 2 cars to the points."

Sainz said Racing Bulls' tactics had exposed the biggest occupation with the rules tweak.

"The tone of the sport, I don't think, should beryllium to manipulate a contention outcome. In the past, determination were immense penalties for manipulating a race, I remember," referring to the 2008 'Crashgate' scandal.