“It was clear…” Sergio Perez questions why stewards didn’t penalise Lewis Hamilton for off-track pass

After the Safetꦺy Car period, where both Red Bulls stayed out on their worn tyres, Hamilton overtook Perez into Turn 7.
The 🍸seven-time world champion ran slightly wide, but kept the position ahead of Perez, who dropped down the ord🅘er.
Hamilton wasn’t investigated for the overtake despite looking like he c🌞ompleted the overtake, by braking late, outside the white lines.
“To me it was clear that Lewis just [braked] really late and wentᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ off the circuit ꦑand gained an advantage,” Perez said.
“Something that we’ve got 🍸to understand going forw⛎ard.”
Perez wa✱s handed a five-seꦬcond penalty after the race for contact with Alex Albon.
The penalty had no impact on his race resu📖lt, remaining in eighth.
"With the Alex 🐎incident, there was nothing there,” Perez added. It was just a racing incident.
“It was quite difficu🐭lt, quite tricky. Not a niꦆce day for us.
“I think this is circuit dependantꦬ and we should be a lot stronger when we are in Japan hopefully.🌼”

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