Throughout the warning interval to take away Valtteri Bottas’s stricken Sauber, Sargeant was working down the start-finish straight in direction of Flip 1 as his Haas rival emerged from the pits following a change of tyres.
However whereas Hulkenberg reached the essential security automotive line that determines the working order a break up second in entrance, Sargeant’s velocity offset and momentum left him considering he had bought there first so he slotted in forward.
Then, with no suggestions from his pit wall or the FIA over needing to present the place again, Sargeant was handed a 10-second penalty after the racing resumed for what was dominated an unlawful overtake.
Requested how arduous the scenario had been to learn as he charged all the way down to the primary nook, Sargeant stated: “There is a little bit of elevation there as effectively and I assume it simply makes issues arduous to see when vehicles are break up by fairly a giant distance.
“To my aspect, I believed I used to be means forward. I did not assume it was even shut so, to me, it was no dialogue. So, to listen to about that on the finish of the race was a bit unusual. I do not know if there’s any means the FIA might possibly give us some suggestions.
“We had been beneath security automotive for ages, I do not know why they did not simply inform me to present the place again. Clearly, I’d’ve achieved so, had they stated, however to my information, I believed I used to be means forward.”
Sargeant’s subsequent 10-second penalty dropped him to seventeenth within the remaining classification, and got here on the finish of a weekend the place he struggled to search out constant efficiency from his Williams – having complained in qualifying the automotive felt “disconnected”.
A significant set-up change for the race prompted a pitlane begin and, whereas there was some encouraging early tempo, he thinks circumstances labored in opposition to him with the timing of the protection automotive.
Plus, an incapacity to get the arduous tyre switched on, left him enduring what he stated was some of the “painful” stints he has skilled in F1.
“There have been good moments, unhealthy moments,” he stated. “I believe the beginning of the race on the softs was robust and after we placed on the medium tyre, we had been in a extremely good place.
“However we most likely might’ve achieved with out that security automotive as a result of we’d’ve gone medium, medium and that will’ve suited us a lot better.
“We put the arduous tyre on, and I could not even get it to modify on, and instantly destroyed the fronts.
“From that time on, it was a large, large battle. Bit confused about that final stint and possibly some of the painful ones I’ve had. We are going to see if we will do higher going ahead.”