Sainz ran over a metal water valve cover that had come free and destroyed the chassis, energy unit and vitality retailer of his SF-23.
A precedent for compensation was set after an incident on the 2017 Malaysian GP, the place Romain Grosjean’s Haas was badly broken after the Frenchman struck a free drain cowl.
The US-owned group subsequently negotiated a monetary settlement with the Sepang organisers.
Requested if Ferrari would search compensation for the Vegas incident, Vasseur stated: “This shall be a personal dialogue that I’ll have with the stakeholders of this.”
In impact, which means Liberty Media and F1, because the race is promoted in-house reasonably than by a neighborhood entity.
Vasseur harassed the crash additionally had an impression on Ferrari’s funds cap spending, as further prices shall be incurred by the necessity to fly an additional spare chassis from Italy to Abu Dhabi subsequent weekend because the Maranello crew has began to organize it straight after the accident.
“There is no such thing as a provision into the funds or value cap, for excluding the crashes,” stated Vasseur. “For certain you’ve numerous further prices. The loom was broken, the gearbox was broken, the battery was broken, the engine is {dead}.
“We have now numerous penalties on the monetary facet, on the sporting facet, and even on the inventory of spare components, and on the funds facet for certain it isn’t a straightforward one.”
Vasseur indicated that he would additionally elevate the topic of injury from related incidents past the group’s management being positioned outdoors the cap: “There shall be dialogue. The choice, it is one other factor.”
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Carlos Sainz, Ferrari SF-23
Vasseur additionally claimed that the marshals on the scene of the incident confirmed a yellow flag having seen the stray object on monitor, however the session was not red-flagged till a minute later, after Sainz had run over it and stropped.
“We might have to debate concerning the circumstances of the incident additionally,” he stated. “As a result of it isn’t simply concerning the cowl popping out, it is also for me that we had one minute between the yellow flag and the crimson flag.
“It signifies that once they put the yellow flag that they noticed one thing on monitor. They usually took one minute earlier than they put the crimson flag. I feel it is an excessive amount of.”
Pressed on the matter, he stated: “The primary problem for me on this case is that if you put the primary yellow flag it signifies that you noticed one thing, you do not put the yellow flag by anticipation.
“It signifies that the man who put the yellow flag, and put the yellow flag additionally on my board, which is coming from the race management, it signifies that they noticed one thing, after which they took one minute earlier than they put the crimson flag, when it is the straight line, and you’ve got a metallic half, and you’re at 340 kph.”
Esteban Ocon additionally broken his Alpine F1 automotive chassis after the crimson flag had come out whereas returning to the pits.
Vasseur confirmed that groups acquired no message telling them that there was particles on the monitor: “No, they did not converse in any respect. We did not know the rationale for the yellow flag.”