The stewards wholly blamed Stroll for not taking extra care to keep away from the contact and handed him a 10-second penalty and two penalty factors, which Stroll felt was “a joke”.
His group boss Krack backed the Canadian and questioned why such a snap verdict was issued quickly after the incident.
“A really, very fast verdict right now with out actually understanding… I believed it was very, very quick and really harsh, very fast determination,” Krack stated when Motorsport.com quizzed him in regards to the punishment.
“I believe it was a sequence response on the finish of the day. You noticed Fernando [Alonso] locking and one other automobile behind and I believe everyone was slightly bit caught on the market.
“I’d have appreciated that this may have been checked out in slightly bit extra detailed approach. We tried to debate it, however the verdict was in a short time that Lance was in charge. And he bought a 10-second penalty, further to the entrance wing injury.”
Mike Krack, Crew Principal, Aston Martin F1 Crew
Picture by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Photos
Ricciardo was notably annoyed with Stroll ducking accountability for the conflict regardless of declaring the Aston driver was trying on the apex of Flip 14 moderately than what was taking place forward of him.
“These conditions are created within the entrance,” Krack responded. “Now, you may all the time say, you want to be extra cautious.
“However alternatively for those who’re too cautious, and you’ve got the restart and also you lose a couple of automobile size – everyone says ‘are you asleep?’
“Issues like that occur at completely different tracks. You keep in mind the incident we had in Mugello [at the 2020 Tuscan GP], the place there have been quite a lot of automobiles concerned.
“That is all the time the erratic motion that occurs on a security automobile restart. And we’ve a few of these yearly and it’ll proceed to be.”
