Alex Albon disagrees with Andrea Stella's arguments.

      Commenting on the disqualification in Vegas, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said the FIA needs to apply penalties proportionally, and to punish minor breaches of the technical regulations lightly. Williams driver Alex Albon disagrees…

      Alex Albon: “In Formula 1, every team has to adhere to the technical limits to the millimetre, but everyone makes mistakes.

      We set the ride height depending on the wind direction, and if on the main straight it suddenly becomes a headwind, that will change the ride height. If the wind shifts, you start to get nervous, take precautions and make adjustments. In a weekend with a Saturday sprint, when there is only one practice and you don’t have enough information, you play it safe and choose the more conservative option.

      Sometimes you finish on Sunday cursing yourself because the skid plank is barely worn, that you could have run riskier settings and gained speed, but those are the rules everyone has to follow. If we start linking the severity of the penalty to the size of the infringement, everyone will start breaking the regulations, which doesn’t happen now because disqualification is inevitable.

      What I don’t like most about this is the random selection of cars for checks after the finish. I would prefer the FIA to always check all twenty cars, then everything would be fair. But that’s how the rules are now.”