Williams driver Carlos Sainz has called for an FIA investigation into tactics used by Racing Bulls at the Monaco Grand Prix.
The strategy of purposefully slowing Liam Lawson down, allowing team-mate Isack Hadjar to pit twice early, was accused of “manipulating” the race according to Sainz.
He explained: “As we were victims of that situation, we had to, in the end, do the same thing as Lawson did both times with Alex [Albon] and myself to make sure we bought the two cars to the points, something I definitely didn’t enjoy doing, something definitely the sport should look into.
“Ultimately, yeah, you’re driving two or three seconds off the pace that the car can do. You are ultimately manipulating the race and manipulating the outcome a bit.
“So we should find a way that this cannot be done in the future because of the feeling then every year, people are going to do it more and more, and it’s becoming more of a trend the last few years.
“So in that sense, the two-stop, if anything, helped to maybe spice up around the pit windows, to have two pit stops, but it made us have to do the slow driving twice, which is not a very good look for the sport.”