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 by way of the tight remaining sequence of corners used on the shorter circuit format.
Having lower throughout the penultimate bend to maneuver forward, each Wehrlein and Evans have been investigated by stewards post-race, who determined a number of hours later that no additional motion was mandatory having spoken to each drivers and studied replays.
However Evans was left shocked that no penalty was handed to Wehrlein, who he believes had an enduring 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 area,” Evans instructed Autosport.
“However they [the stewards] didn’t give it to him in the long run. I then had to make use of power to cross 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 believe that was tremendous clear from my perspective and much more so after I’ve seen a number of footage.
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“I’m nonetheless a bit irritated, he deserves a penalty for that, he had an enduring benefit.”
Evans additionally admitted that had he been unable to cross Wehrlein on the ultimate lap he “could be kicking off huge time” as a way to overturn the consequence.
Wehrlein believes it was not possible to say who had been forward approaching the nook because the pair ran side-by-side, and that reducing throughout the grass was the one choice to keep away from a collision.
“From my view, I didn’t have sufficient area, I needed to keep away from a collision. If I saved attempting to make the nook we’d have simply crashed,” mentioned Wehrlein.
“The problem 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 possibly 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 monitor, which demoted the Portuguese driver from fifth to outdoors the factors.