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Villeneuve 'bothered' by driver mistakes getting punished
Jacques Villeneuve says the stewards were wrong to punish Max Verstappen for his contact with Lewis Hamilton at Monza, insisting too many penalties will risk having a detrimental effect on the racing. The stewards held Verstappen accountable for the contact that took both the Dutchman and Hamilton out of the Italian Grand Prix. But Villeneuve suspects the stewards were influenced by the consequences of the crash rather than on the causes of the incident. "Max should not have been punished," Villeneuve told Italy's Corriere della Sera. "So many mistakes from Lewis, you can see that he was no longer used to having an opponent." "At Monza there were two players. Max...
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