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 staff boss Krack backed the Canadian and questioned why such a snap verdict was issued quickly after the incident.
“A really, very fast verdict at this time with out actually understanding… I assumed it was very, very quick and really harsh, very fast choice,” Krack stated when Motorsport.com quizzed him concerning the punishment.
“I believe it was a series response on the finish of the day. You noticed Fernando [Alonso] locking and one other automobile behind and I believe all people was a little bit bit caught on the market.
“I might have favored that this is able to have been checked out in a little bit bit extra detailed means. We tried to debate it, however the verdict was in a short time that Lance was guilty. And he acquired a 10-second penalty, extra to the entrance wing injury.”
Mike Krack, Group Principal, Aston Martin F1 Group
Picture by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Images
Ricciardo was notably pissed off with Stroll ducking duty for the conflict regardless of declaring the Aston driver was trying on the apex of Flip 14 somewhat than what was taking place forward of him.
“These conditions are created within the entrance,” Krack responded. “Now, you may at all times say, it’s worthwhile to be extra cautious.
“However then again when you’re too cautious, and you’ve got the restart and also you lose multiple automobile size – all people 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 numerous vehicles concerned.
“That is at all times the erratic motion that occurs on a security automobile restart. And we’ve got a few of these yearly and it’ll proceed to be.”