Lance Stroll received his second grid penalty of the weekend for another incident in which he got in the way of a rival.
The Aston Martin driver was given a three-place grid drop for impeding Pierre Gasly during qualifying. He was also given a one-place grid drop yesterday for causing a collision when he pulled onto the racing line in front of Charles Leclerc.Stroll’s latest grid penalty will have no effect on his starting position as it stands. He is already due to start 19th ahead of Oliver Bearman who has a 10-place grid penalty and will therefore remain behind the Aston Martin.
The stewards spoke to Stroll and Gasly. The Aston Martin driver said his team had warned him about Gasly, but mistook his car for that of Lewis Hamilton.
“Car 18 [Stroll] was informed that car 10 [Gasly] was arriving on a fast lap at turn 10. From the radio
communications it appears that car 18 was not informed [or] 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.
“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.”
Stroll was not given any further penalty points on his licence for the incident.
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Ideals (@ideals)
24th May 2025, 17:46
It’s weird there’s this superlicense system in place. There’s a penalty points system in place. There’s all kinds of conditions that could keep you from driving F1 cars.
Yet Lance Stroll who continuously just crashes into people because he clearly isn’t paying attention (ask Vettel or Latifi about this if Charles is too busy) can just not have it taken away. Guy is going to cause serious harm to another driver at some point and he’ll blame a bug flying into his mouth and people will nod and give him a 1 place grid drop instead of actual consequences.
Even now, where he’s already demonstrated earlier in the weekend that he simply doesn’t pay attention to his surroundings, they just meekly accept his excuse of “sun makes colors haaaard” and don’t even give him a single penalty point? How?
Dale
24th May 2025, 17:47
He is just completely out of his depth at this level.
Applebook
25th May 2025, 4:19
Stroll is one of the few guys on the grid for whom these types of penalties are actually his fault rather than his pitwall giving him had information. The sad part for him is that his pace relative to Alonso has actually been pretty respectable for around a full year now, but his mistakes are too numerous and frankly too dangerous.
Jere (@jerejj)
24th May 2025, 18:05
He’s lucky Bearman had already received a 10-place drop before even his initial 1-place drop, let alone this separate 3-place drop, not that starting second-to-last instead of last makes any difference in Monaco.
Adam (@rocketpanda)
24th May 2025, 18:24
I mean, it’s already been said, but if Aston Martin/Papa Stroll is serious of winning races and titles in the future he probably needs to move his son on. He’s had a very long career for someone that’s achieved very little of note and his ‘best’ is way, way behind him. Team’s only as strong as it’s weakest link.
uzsjgb (@uzsjgb)
24th May 2025, 19:11
Should I repost all these comments under the article about Hamilton’s penalty? For exactly the same thing.
Ideals (@ideals)
24th May 2025, 19:38
Sure go ahead. Might look a bit silly as the situations were completely different and I don’t remember Hamilton crashing out Leclerc, Vettel and Latifi on cooldown/out-laps, but I am sure people over there will point that out to you so knock yourself out.
Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
24th May 2025, 20:01
Despite how bad Stroll has been this season (and he has been bad pretty often) He still has 14 points compared to Alonso with none, and if I’m honest, overall he has done better than Alonso when points have been available. That shows that Alonso can’t have been good either this season.
The other things that look worrying is that Stroll scored more points in the first race alone than Tsunoda has at Red Bull in total….
Stroll also has more points than Sainz, and the Williams this season is on a whole different league compared to Aston Martin. Albon having 40 points shows this. Sadly I have to say Sainz is overall doing a very poor job this season and it’s hard to say he’s done any better than Stroll. That Williams in at least 2 races has been the 4th best car and better than Ferrari at several. I think he should have at least 30 and by now be beating Albon if he’s at the level we thought he was.
Ekr
24th May 2025, 21:00
Conveniently overlooking the fact the racing bulls threw away heaps of points in the first 3 races alone
bernasaurus (@bernasaurus)
24th May 2025, 20:24
I’m just going to skip to Monday, and the stats article. When was the last time someone got two separate grid penalties in one weekend? Nothing instantly springs to mind.
JamesL
25th May 2025, 7:47
He just doesn’t belong in F1. Seats should be allocated on talent rather than money but I guess that’s just how it is nowadays