Stroll gets another grid penalty for Monaco GP after incident with Gasly during Qualifying

Lance Stroll has been given another grid penalty for the Monaco Grand Prix after he was found guilty of impeding Pierre Gasly during Saturday’s Qualifying session.

Stroll, who headed into Qualifying with a one-place drop for clashing with Charles Leclerc in practice, was seen on television footage getting in Gasly’s way under braking for the Nouvelle Chicane during the Q1 phase.

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Gasly expressed his frustration at the Aston Martin driver over the radio, describing the incident as “shocking”, while Stroll commented that he was not aware of the Alpine man’s presence.

The stewards subsequently noted the incident and, after reviewing footage, data and talking to both drivers, who were knocked out in Q1, they decided to hand Stroll a three-place grid drop.

Added to his original penalty, it means Stroll has a four-place drop for Sunday’s race, but he is set to remain 19th on the grid given that Haas rookie Ollie Bearman has his own 10-place sanction and falls to the very back of the field.

“Car 18 (Stroll) was informed that Car 10 (Gasly) was arriving on a fast lap at Turn 10,” read the stewards’ report. “From the radio communications it appears that Car 18 was not informed/reminded that Car 44 (Hamilton) (whom Car 18 had overtaken earlier in that lap) was also coming and that Car 44 was going to overtake Car 18.

“The driver of Car 18 assumed wrongly that there was only one car to be let by and when Car 44 (which was not on a fast lap) went by him, he moved back to the racing line thereby impeding Car 10 which was on a fast lap.

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“During the hearing, the driver of Car 18 stated that he could not tell the colour of the car that had overtaken him because of the position of the sun, which we accepted. He therefore wrongly assumed that there was no other car to be let by.

“In the circumstances, we imposed the usual penalty of a drop of three grid positions.”