Sainz wants simpler Safety Car rules

Following Carlos Sainz Jr's ten-second penalty in the German Grand Prix, the Spaniard calls for simpler Safety Car rules.

Renault driver Carlos Sainz Jr. received a ten-second penalty on Sunday, a deficit that took him out of the top ten.

Sainz overtook Sauber driver Marcus Ericsson during a Safety Car period.

The Spanish driver said that he wasn't entirely sure about if lapped drivers were allowed to unlap themselves at the end of the Safety Car periods.

"This was a very particular incident and a very strange situation," Sainz told RaceFans.net.

"Just after my pit stop for inters I got lapped and I was one lap down. As soon as the Safety Car gave us notice to unlap ourselves, I was a little bit leaped into the unknown, not knowing really well who was lapped, who had to unlap themselves and who didn't.

"At that point, I saw pretty much most of the cars going really slowly, even if you were allowed to unlap yourselves, so I just decided to push, to rejoin the field at the back of the train as soon as possible. I think some drivers got the notice a bit later than me and they were simply not pushing, they had the recharge mode on.

"Particularly with the Sauber, I thought we had a problem on the car or didn't want to get to the back of the field because he wasn't even pushing, so I decided to clear him, just as a personal decision. I was told to give position back to hi, I gave the position back but I don't know if intentionally or not he braked again and he let me by again.

"So a big mess and a bit difficult to understand at that point what is happening, as you can all imagine now because the story is not very easy to tell."