Sainz takes laughing dig at FIA Stewards post Bearman crash

Sainz started the Italian Grand Prix in P13, well outside the point-scoring places. Nevertheless, the Williams driver felt there was a good chance to score points in Monza.

"We were doing a good comeback," he told GPblog after the race. "We were the last of the medium starters, which I got stuck [behind of] and with the hard starters starting behind me and me trying to emulate a bit the extending the medium, making it look like a hard, probably I was a bit on the backfoot, but still committed to extending."

Making his pit stop to ditch the worn medium yellow band tyres and taking on a brand new set of hards, Sainz was able to sneak his way into the points, right behind Haas F1 driver Oliver Bearman.

As the pair chased down Stake F1 driver Gabriel Bortoleto, the were also battling each other. However on lap 41 of the race drama ensued for both as contact was produced when Sainz was going for the overtake on the outside of Bearman going into the second chicane.

"We were on the comeback on the hard and, yeah, just an incident there with Ollie in the middle of the comeback," he explained. "A shame because I cannot count the amount of times that this year I've been in a collision with another driver this time, at least [with the Stewards not] judging us [to be] the culprit [this time].

"But yeah, not much really. We were on a high for good points and that happened and from there I got damage and couldn't make it back," Sainz concluded.

For Bearman the incident left him with two more penalty points added to his license, which brings him up to 10 total, out of the 12 necessary to incurr in a race ban, and dissapointed that his points bid came undone.

The Spaniard ultimately finished P11, just outside the points, behind Isack Hadjar who claimed the final point after starting from the pitlane. On the other side of the Williams garage, though, Alexander Albon managed to bring his FW47 up to P7, adding 6 more points to his own tally.