Pascal Wehrlein said the late pitstop call that resulted in a five-second time penalty was vital to Sauber scoring its first points of 2017 in Spain. The German driver completed a long opening stint on the soft tyre but the virtual safety car was called just as he was going through the sector three chicane. He got the instruction to pit too late to make the bollard drivers are required to stay to the right of when tackling the entry lane. This resulted in a five-second time penalty so while he finished seventh on the road after an aggressive strategy, he dropped to eighth. “Really happy about the race and how it went,” he said. “The first stint was quite tough with the...
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