Carlos Sainz earns grid penalty following Kimi Antonelli clash

Carlos Sainz was the one driver to not see the chequered flag throughout Sunday’s United States Grand Prix, at The Circuit Of The Americas, after he suffered terminal race injury following a collision with Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes.

Duelling by means of the tight and twisty starting of the ultimate sector, the Spaniard chanced a transfer down the within of flip 15, however clipped the Silver Arrow’s left rear tyre and despatched it right into a spin.

Sainz was out right away, with injury to his proper entrance tyre, and he parked his Williams automotive between the ultimate two corners of the monitor, whereas Antonelli continued on to complete outdoors of the highest ten.

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In reviewing the incident, the stewards dominated that Sainz was chargeable for the conflict: “Automobile 55 tried an inside overtake on Automobile 12 at Flip 15 and a collision between the 2 vehicles occurred on the apex.

“The motive force of Automobile 55 maintained that he had anticipated the driving force of Automobile 12 to depart him area on the apex however Automobile 12 turned in early and Automobile 55 locked brakes when it grew to become clear {that a} collision was unavoidable.

“At no level previous to the apex was the entrance axle of Automobile 55 alongside or forward of the mirror of Automobile 12. Due to this fact, in keeping with the Driving Requirements Pointers, Automobile 55 had not earned a proper to be left area on the apex.”

Consequently, and with not having the ability to serve the penalty in the course of the race, Sainz (‘Automobile 12’) was slapped with a five-place grid penalty for this weekend’s Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix as a substitute, the scene of his newest F1 triumph, which he seized in 2024.

Carlos Sainz is OUT after making contact with Kimi Antonelli! 💥

Here is what occurred… 👇#F1 #USGP pic.twitter.com/OIIUH031CO

— Formulation 1 (@F1) October 19, 2025

For the Spaniard, it was hardly a disastrous weekend on condition that he completed third throughout Saturday’s dash and demonstrated his underlying tempo as soon as extra. However in battling with a Mercedes so early on within the race, for seventh place, the ensuing retirement represents one other missed alternative that has dominated a lot of his 2025 marketing campaign.

On his conflict, Sainz instructed williamsf1.com: “It is a disgrace to finish the race that manner because the automotive had nice tempo as we speak. I had executed an identical transfer on Bearman some laps earlier than, so I attempted that inside line with Antonelli into flip 15.

“He opened the road after which closed the door extra abruptly than what I used to be anticipating, I attempted to react by slamming on the brakes to keep away from contact nevertheless it was too late and we touched.

“I used to be behind so I settle for my a part of fault and in the end it is a disgrace because it price the race for each of us. We had been fast, so it hurts to not convert it into extra factors.”