Christian Horner questions stewards after huge Red Bull penalty

Christian Horner has questioned the consistency of the F1 stewards following Yuki Tsunoda's huge penalty in the Canadian Grand Prix.

For overtaking a wounded Oscar Piastri under red flag conditions in FP3, Tsunoda was handed a 10-place grid drop by the stewards, and two penalty points on his superlicence.

It meant instead of starting 11th where he qualified, he dropped to last, which incidentally was P18 on the grid as Liam Lawson and Pierre Gasly started from the pit-lane. 

Tsunoda managed to climb to 12th but did not score points, as Horner questioned the scale of Tsunoda's penalty, especially when seven drivers were investigated post-race for overtaking on the cool-down lap, with the race still technically under safety car conditions. 

It should be pointed out that Tsunoda did drive past Piastri under the red flags in FP3 at 171kph, 106mph.

These seven drivers all received warnings from the FIA, with no penalties being handed out.

"Yuki was nailed [on Saturday] for making an overtake, and then a few cars overtook whilst there were marshals on the track [after the race]," Horner observed to media, including RacingNews365. 

"So, one would expect some form of consistency again. 

"Once his tyres cleaned up, I thought he actually did a decent job, and you can see how hard overtaking is here, so I thought Yuki should take some confidence from it. 

"If he'd have started in his normal grid position, where he qualified, he would have scored points.

"I think he must try to avoid what other drivers have done and gone down the road of trying to adopt Max's set-up, and to go for his own route and work on what suits his style and needs, and I think he's made some progress."