Lance Stroll has been hit with a three-place grid penalty for the Monaco Grand Prix for impeding Pierre Gasly in qualifying on Saturday, however he’ll nonetheless begin the race from the identical place he certified in.
That is the second sanction for the Aston Martin driver in Monaco this weekend, having beforehand been handed a one-place grid drop for a similar offence in Friday apply. In that case, he had blocked the trail of Charles Leclerc on the hairpin, inflicting the Ferrari driver to lose his entrance wing.
On this event in Q1, Stroll was knowledgeable by Aston Martin that one other automobile (Gasly’s Alpine) was approaching him heading into Flip 10.
Nonetheless, in actuality, there have been two automobiles within the image, with Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari additionally within the queue.
Whereas Stroll let Hamilton by means of, he returned to the racing line shortly after, inflicting Gasly to examine up and slam on the brakes to keep away from a collision. The Frenchman was on a flying lap when he encountered Stroll on the racing line.
Though Stroll defended himself by claiming he wasn’t certain which automobile had handed him because of the place of the solar, the stewards nonetheless imposed a three-place grid penalty for Sunday’s race.
Nonetheless, for the reason that Canadian driver solely certified nineteenth for the race, he received’t truly be serving the complete four-place penalty.
In reality, the 2 penalties could have no impression on his beginning place, with Haas driver Oliver Bearman – who certified barely increased in seventeenth place – selecting up an excellent larger 10-place grid drop for overtaking Williams’ Carlos Sainz throughout a crimson flag in apply.
Full stewards verdict
The Stewards heard from the driving force of Automobile 18 (Lance Stroll), the driving force of Automobile 10 (Pierre Gasly), group representatives and reviewed positioning/marshalling system knowledge, video, timing, telemetry, group radio and in-car video proof.
Automobile 18 was knowledgeable that Automobile 10 was arriving on a quick lap at Flip 10. From the radio communications it seems that Automobile 18 was not knowledgeable/reminded that Automobile 44 (whom Automobile 18 had overtaken earlier in that lap) was additionally coming and that Automobile 44 was going to overhaul Automobile 18.
The driving force of Automobile 18 assumed wrongly that there was just one automobile to be let by and when Automobile 44 (which was not on a quick lap) glided by him, he moved again to the racing line thereby impeding Automobile 10 which was on a quick lap.
Throughout the listening to, the driving force of Automobile 18 acknowledged that he couldn’t inform the color of the automobile that had overtaken him due to the place of the solar, which we accepted. He subsequently wrongly assumed that there was no different automobile to be let by.
Within the circumstances, we imposed the same old penalty of a drop of three grid positions.
