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Carlos Sainz doesn't believe he should have been displayed the black and orange flag during the Singapore Grand Prix.
The Toro Rosso driver sustained bodywork damage in the opening lap clash with Nico Hulkenberg, but he insists it wasn't slowing him down.
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Eventually he finished in 14th place, but he thinks he could have placed higher were it not for the flag and a battery issue which came later on.
"I think even with the damage we had good pace, the problem is that we needed to stop too early [due to black and orange flag]," Sainz is quoted by crash.net. "I don't know why as there was nothing dangerous on the car but I was forced to stop early and, when you stop early, you are behind the whole traffic and your race is ruined."
"I don't think I was putting anyone in any danger and it conditioned my race as I had to pit early – we were planning to pit on lap 14 and I had to stop on lap 7. Then you are behind traffic and can no longer do 2 stops."
"Then no battery, on lap 20, I did 41 laps with 600hp and 900 of the other, that's what really went wrong. Without that problem points were possible."
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