Guenther Steiner believes Carlos Sainz’s three-place grid penalty for causing a first lap collision in Canada is lax, especially in light of Romain Grosjean’s 2012 ban.

Sainz was hit with a three-place penalty for the next race in Azerbaijan after the stewards held him responsible for the lap 1 crash that ended in retirement for Sainz and Felipe Massa and a new front wing for Grosjean.

The Haas driver labelled the Spaniard’s actions “pretty dangerous”, adding that he could have caused a “pretty bad” crash.

Sainz, however, says he “never realised a Haas was in my dead angle in the mirror and we collided.

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