A number of drivers had occasions deleted in Friday’s qualifying, and that continued within the Saturday shootout after the white strains had been moved at Turns 12 and 13 – the place most of the offences occurred – to be able to defend tyres from kerb injury.
Together with Lance Stroll, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was one among two drivers to obtain a five-second penalty within the dash occasion, which in his case dropped him from seventh to twelfth within the last classification.
4 drivers obtained penalties in Sunday’s Grand Prix, specifically Pierre Gasly, Sergio Perez, Alex Albon and Stroll.
Vasseur insisted that the FIA ought to be taught classes after usually experiencing related issues on the Austrian GP.
“I might say that the largest problem for me of the weekend is observe limits,” mentioned the Frenchman.
“As a result of you understand when you’re going to Spielberg that you should have points with observe limits, and we had points with observe limits right here, and also you get the outcomes two hours after the race.
“And after we got here earlier than the weekend, we advised them precisely the identical, that will probably be a competition. And it was a competition.
“I believe on prime of this, the drivers on the finish they maybe misplaced just a little little bit of focus, and a few guys, the final 10 laps, they have been doing strikes each single lap. However you’ll be able to’t blame them on this scenario, we now have to discover a answer.”
Carlos Sainz, Ferrari SF-23, runs over the kerb at flip 12-13 that was altered as a result of tyre separation
Photograph by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Images
Vasseur harassed that it is onerous for followers to comply with what is going on on.
“I believe it isn’t even good for the present,” he mentioned. “No less than on the pit wall, you have got the variety of strikes, you’ll be able to comply with the story, you understand the place you’re and so forth. However I am occupied with the fellows who’re in entrance of their TV, they do not have the story in regards to the strikes.
“And at one stage they see Gasly 5 seconds, Gasly 10 seconds, Gasly 15 seconds. We’ve got to assume additionally about this. I believe that we will anticipate this type of problem.”
Requested if it was proper that such a scenario might happen given how a lot Qatar had invested within the Losail circuit and the occasion, Vasseur mentioned: “I will not go on this discipline as a result of I do not know who’s liable for this.
“However it’s not only a matter of kerbs. It is the whole course of, the format of the observe, the kerbs, what’s after the kerbs. We’ve got to discover a answer.
“However as you mentioned, and I do not wish to go on this discipline and to talk about funding, however we’re coming to Qatar, they’re doing a mega effort to organise the occasion, and to have this consequence is for me shouldn’t be on the degree of the championship.”
Vasseur mentioned he supported the FIA response to the security issues over Pirelli’s tyres, and which led to restricted stint lengths in Sunday’s race.
“I believe the response was fairly good,” he mentioned when requested by Motorsport.com in regards to the measures that have been taken. “On the finish of the day, it is all the time for me security first.
“And we weren’t certain [about the tyres], and to have this type of response, we did a great race, it was a great present.
“And I might say that the response was very applicable. It’s kind of of a disgrace to be within the scenario.”