Williams learn stewards' verdict after Carlos Sainz right of review probe

Williams has been successful in its right of review into the penalty sustained by Carlos Sainz at the Dutch Grand Prix, with F1 stewards rescinding part of his penalty.

Sainz had made contact with Liam Lawson at Turn 1 at Zandvoort, for which he received a 10-second time penalty during the race, as well as two penalty points on his superlicence. 

However, prior to the Italian GP, Williams lodged a right of review with the stewards, needing to present "significant, relevant, and new evidence" which was not previously available to the stewards at the time of the original decision.

The delay in the decision, coming nearly two weeks after the race, was due to the need to reconvene the original stewards panel from Zandvoort, with the stewards deciding that Williams had indeed presented the required evidence to re-open the case.

This was 360-degree camera footage from Sainz's and rear-facing footage from Lawson's Racing Bulls machine, as well as driver testimony. 

As the video footage was not available to the team at the time, it was counted as meeting the required threshold. 

In the hearing, Sainz agreed that he was not "strictly entitled" to space on the outside as per F1's racing and overtaking guidelines, and that the collision occurred because he was "not prepared" for Lawson to have a snap of oversteer mid-corner.

The stewards, revisiting the decision, agreed that the incident was a racing incident with no one driver "wholly or predominantly to blame."

As such, Sainz's two penalty points were removed from his superlicence, but the stewards were unable to rescind his time penalty served during the race, meaning the results are unchanged.