Jaguar’s Evans took victory within the first of two races this weekend on the Shanghai Worldwide Circuit, having taken the lead on the ultimate lap from Wehrlein with a daring transfer across the outdoors of Flip 1.
Wehrlein had headed the sector for the ultimate phases of the race having taken the lead after going side-by-side with Evans via the tight closing sequence of corners used on the shorter circuit structure.
Having lower throughout the penultimate bend to maneuver forward, each Wehrlein and Evans have been investigated post-race by stewards, who determined a number of hours later that no additional motion was crucial having spoken to each drivers and studied replays.
However Evans was left shocked that no penalty was handed to Wehrlein, who he believes had a long-lasting benefit within the incident.
“For me, it was clear he was going to get a penalty, he even admitted to me that he gained a bonus, I gave him house,” Evans advised Motorsport.com.
“However they [the stewards] didn’t give it to him ultimately. I then had to make use of power to go him once more so I’m fairly shocked that he didn’t get a penalty for it.
“I simply thought the race director or stewards would say give the place again [during the race], I feel that was tremendous clear from my perspective and much more so after I’ve seen lots of footage.
“I’m nonetheless a bit aggravated, he deserves a penalty for that, he had a long-lasting benefit.”
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Evans additionally admitted that had he been unable to go Wehrlein on the ultimate lap he “could be kicking off massive time” as a way to overturn the outcome.
Wehrlein believes it was unimaginable to say who had been forward approaching the nook because the pair ran side-by-side, and that slicing throughout the grass was the one choice to keep away from a collision.
“From my view, I didn’t have sufficient house, I needed to keep away from a collision. If I stored attempting to make the nook we might have simply crashed,” stated Wehrlein.
“The issue is looking for out who was forward as a result of we have been each side-by-side. So did I overtake him off-track? Very uncertain as a result of perhaps even I used to be forward. I didn’t overtake him being behind him.”
Whereas Wehrlein escaped punishment, his Porsche team-mate Antonio Felix da Costa was handed a five-second penalty for forcing Jean-Eric Vergne off observe, which demoted the Portuguese driver from fifth to outdoors the factors.
