[Keith Collantine]

Sean Gelael triggered this brutal crash for Antonio Giovinazzi during Sunday morning’s GP2 race – but the race stewards surprisingly took no action:

It’s hard to think of a more shocking piece of driving than this in recent seasons which has gone completely unpunished.

Gelael’s reaction to the criticism he face for the crash on Twitter was as follows:

After the penalty yesterday, started my race 17th and finished 13th. Positive vibes all round. Thanks everyone for the support. #Vamos

— Sean Gelael (@gelaelized) May 15, 2016

Brothers off and on the track. I dont know what you guys are on about. But we are better than ever. #Bromance pic.twitter.com/1pXrhkIrME

— Sean Gelael (@gelaelized) May 15, 2016

Giovinazzi retweeted the latter. Note the pair were team mates in 2014 in the Carlin squad backed by Jagonya Ayam, the Indonesian fast-good chain owned by Gelael’s father Ricardo, who continued to back the pair as team mates in the ELMS with SMP racing this year.

The replays above also do a pretty good job of illustrating how the asphalt did a much better job of arresting Giovinazzi’s speed until he hit the gravel trap. The full-speed view shows just how brutal his eventual hit with the barrier was.

[Craig Woollard]

Shameful decision. How are drivers going to learn that moves like that are simply not right without getting some sort of punishment? Many will draw comparison to the Hamilton/Rosberg clash but if anything, this one is more similar to the crash caused by Alfonso Celis at Hungary in the Formula 3.5 V8 not too long ago.

[Will Wood]

This would anger me, but this kind of thing happens so often these days that I’ve become pretty resigned that dangerous driving can be gotten away with in GP2.

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