Haas boss Guenther Steiner has launched another tirade towards Formula 1 stewards after the Monaco Grand Prix weekend.
In qualifying, Romain Grosjean was held up by Pierre Gasly on the exit of Casino Square rendering the Frenchman unable to improve his time and miss out on Q3.
For the incident, the Red Bull driver was given a three-place grid penalty with Grosjean not blaming Gasly because he likely wasn’t informed by his team that he was approaching.
Regardless, that didn’t stop Steiner making some big accusations against the race officials.
“There’s no point in raising it because nobody does anything about it anyway,” he was quoted by PlanetF1.
“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.”
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Gasly’s punishment was the same that Grosjean himself got for blocking Lando Norris during qualifying in Bahrain but a key difference was that incident didn’t impact the final results.
Therefore, Steiner believes the context of an incident should be considered as much as the letter of the regulations.
“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.” the Haas chief said.
“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.”
