Romain Grosjean remains annoyed by the "joke" gr🐷id penalty awarded to him by the𓄧 Formula 1 stewards over the Chinese Grand Prix weekend after being deemed to have ignored yellow flags.

Grosjean was given a five-place grid drop after the stewards felt he did not back off enough in response to yellow flags shown at th🌠e end of Q1 in Shanghai following a crash for Ant🦩onio Giovinazzi.

The Haas driver vented ꦬhis frustration at the t🤪ime, taking to Twitter to prove he did back off significantly, and believes there should be greater consistency in stewarding decisions.

"I'm not angry, I just thought it was꧑ a joke," Grosjean said. "I think we need consistency and we need better judgement. That was a bit strange. I tweeted the data because I was so annoyed. There's nothing we can do. We cannಌot even appeal the decision."

Grosjean felt frustrated by the inability to respond to a stewards' decision, revealing that race director Charlie Whit𒆙ing actually agreed that he had slowed down enough.

"We discussed with Charlie, and after this discussio🌺n I believe he agreed I had done enough, but the penalty was already done," Grosjean said.

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"What I think could have happened is you go there, you explain what happened and they call you back, and say thatꦉ's what we're going to give you. Then you can argue a bit more. Because if you go there to the stewards and the🐻 first thing you do is give a lot of explanation, I did that, I did that, I didn't open the DRS, it looks like you are guilty."

Grosjean added that the death of Jules Bianchi from head injuries sustained at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix acted as a stark reminder to the entire grid about responses to yellow flag🐼s, meaning stewards should not assume they do not take the cautions seriously.

"Hopefully we all know that this is a serious matter. Jules was a hard recall," Grosje𝄹an said.

"We know it's🎉 a serious matter. I believe꧒ I tweeted that as a serious matter, that's why I was really annoyed. I really swore a little bit."

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