Aston Martin question F1 stewards after “very quick verdict” for Lance Stroll incident
Aston Marꦜtin were unhappy with how quick the stewards handed Lance Stroll a penalty in ♕China.
Aston Martin team boss Mike Krack has questioned F1’s stewards for handing Lance Stroll a 10-second time penalty for an incident inꦛ the Chinese Grand Prix.
Stroll was hit with a 10-second penalty after he drove into the back of RB’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo under the Safety Car.
The contact c☂ompletely damaged ♈Ricciardo’s rear diffuser, effectively ruining his race, while Stroll was forced into the pit lane for a new front wing.
It also resulted in damage to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri’s McLaren, but he was able to continue.
After the race, Stroll blamed it on a “r🎃eally odd concertina effect”, with his resp🍨onse leaving Ricciardo irate.
Krack feels like 🐟the stewards acted too hastily in giving Stroll a penalty, blaming it on a “chain reaction”.
“A very, very quick verdict today without really understanding. I thought it was very, very fast and very harsh, very quick decis🍌ion," Krack said in Ch🔥ina.
“I thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚink it was a chain reaction at the end of the day. Y𝓰ou saw Fernando locking and another car behind and I think everybody was a little bit caught out there.
“I would have liked that this would have been l💟ooked at in a little bit more detailed way.
“We tried to discuss it but the verdict was very quickly that Lance was to blame, and he got a 10-second ꦯp🌟enalty, additional to the front wing damage.”
Krack believes what happened o෴n Lap 27 is simply what can ꦅoccur under a Safety Car, citing the 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix where a number of cars crashed out during a restart at Mugello.
"These situations are creᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚated in the front," Krack added. "Now, you can always say, you need to be more careful.
"But on the other hand if you're too careful, and you have t𒁏he restart and you lose more than𝐆 one car length - everybody says 'are you asleep?'
"Things like thܫat happen at different tracks. You remember the incident we had in Mugello, where there were 🏅a lot of cars involved.
"This is always the erratic movement that happen♔s on a safety car restart. And we have some of these every year an𓃲d it will continue to be."
With a sharp eye for F1’s controversies and storylines, Connor꧒ is the h♛eartbeat of our unbiased reporting.
