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Steiner slams Monaco race stewards after qualifying incident

Steiner slams Monaco race stewards after qualifying incident

28-05-2019 12:57
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Jake Williams-Smith

Haas F1 team principal Gunther Steiner has slammed the race stewards of the Monaco Grand Prix after Pierre Gasly was handed a three-place grid penalty for impeding Romain Grosjean in qualifying, a penalty he felt was too lenient.

Grosjean was knocked out in Q2 due to the block and Steiner insisted that some of the Stewards would need to brush up on the rules of Formula 1, adding that even a "blind man" could have made a better decision.

“There’s no point in raising it because nobody does anything about it anyway," he told Autosport.

“What can you do? How many times do I have to say it? It’s like a broken record. Some of the stewards are just not up to being stewards.

“I cannot raise it more because after a while… I just say it like it is. I’m not going to spend more time writing letters to people anymore.

“Some of the stewards should read the rulebooks. They didn’t have to give Romain a one-point penalty [in Bahrain]. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“But the stewards felt they need to give a penalty. I don’t know which one [is wrong], they have to make their mind up.

“They cannot be the same sentence, in my opinion. It was two completely different circumstances, with consequences on one side and not on the other. It’s just so different. Even a blind man sees it.”

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