George Russell’s penalty for deliberately cutting a corner at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix has left Sauber boss Jonꦬathan Wheatley concerned.

The Mercedes driver purposely cut the Nouvelle chicane during Sunday’s 78-lap race at Monaco in order to get ahead of Williams’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon as he bid to reach the points after a techꦐnical issue in qualifying left him down in 14th.

Russell was frustrated by Albon’s tactics after the British-born Anglo Thai was ordered by Williams to slow the chasing Mercedes duo behind to ensure teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Carlos Sainz had a large enough gap to🅰 make his second sto🔥p and not lose track position.

Russell took matters into his own hands by overtaking Albon off track. When told by Mercedes to💎 hand the place back Russell refused, saying he would instead accept the pe✱nalty.

Albon and Sainz went on to score Williams’ fourth consecutive🍒 double points finish in ninth and 10th, while Russell came away from M𒐪onaco empty-handed as he took 11th.

The implications of Russell’s decision caught the attention of Sauber team principal Wheatley, who has urged F1 to review the matter following a race he descri꧋bed as being “defined by strategy and shaped more by the rules♊ than by pure racing.”

“A♔s a sport we do need to take a closer look at George’s [Russell] pe𒉰nalty and consider what can be learned,” Wheatley said.

“Especially in races so heavily influenced by mand💧atory tyre usage rules like this one.”

Albon buys Russell dinner

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Albon paid for a dinner date with Russell on Sunday evening as a peace offering following thei𓆉r heated on-track cla✃sh.

"I'm having🔯 dinner with him tonight, so he would definitely get the bill,” Russell proclaimed a🍒fter Sunday’s grand prix.

Albon revealed in a post on social media that he had indeed footed the bill for their dinner as they put💫 the incident behind them.

Both Williams drivers expressed their remorse about the controversial tactics, while team principal James Vowles sent a text to Mercedes counterpart Toto ꦯWolff apologising.

"♍We knew it was a possibility. We knew the strategy could happen. I think we were talking about it on Thursday,” Albon explained.

"We didn't want it to happen, anꦿd I think on our side, it wasn't how we 💯were going to go racing. Once RB started it, it basically it put us in a position where we had to do it as well.

"It bunched the field up so tightly, the only way to get out of🍌 that situation was to basically repeat what they did. Not pretty and and frustrating, but in the end it's a team sport and we maximised three points for the team.”