F1 Monaco: Both were fined! Hamilton and Stroel were fined three times for blocking their opponents

Hamilton and Stroel blocked Verstappen and Gasley respectively in Q1 of the qualifying match, and were each punished and stepped back and started three places.

Both drivers blocked their opponents in Q1. The incident between Hamilton and Verstappen occurred at the beginning of Q1, when Hamilton was slowly driving at the T3 Massenet, while Verstappen, who had just begun the timing lap, approached Hamilton at high speed. After seeing Hamilton, Verstappen immediately changed courses to avoid collisions and then made a complaint via radio. After investigating the matter, the referee team ruled that Hamilton blocked his opponent and sentenced him to retreat three places to start Sunday's main match as usual, representing Hamilton falling to 7th place. As for Verstappen, Hajar and Alonso each rose by one.

The referee said in the judgment: "The referee team listened to the statements of the drivers and team representatives of Car No. 44 and Car No. 1, and checked the positioning and track flag system data, video, timing, remote system, radio and on-board cameras."

"Car No. 44 was driving slowly and leaving the racing line when approaching T2, while Car No. 1 was in the timing lap. The team initially notified Car No. 44, saying that Car No. 1 was running the timing lap, but then sent an error message saying that Car No. 1 was "decelerating". In fact, Car No. 1 never slowed down, but was always in the timing lap, not "decelerating" as the team said. As a result, Car No. 1 had to react to the movements of Car No. 44 that seemed to be entering the racing line, representing 1 Car No. 1 must drive away from the normal racing line and be forced to stop the timing lap."

"We carefully checked the driving route of Car No. 1 on the same section of the road in the first few laps, and confirmed that Car No. 44 did enter the route taken by Car No. 1 in the first few laps, which fully proves that 1 Car No. 44 driver immediately expressed dissatisfaction with the team sending an error message after the accident. "

"At the hearing, Car No. 44 driver admitted that the team issued an error message, causing the accident to occur. Like similar incidents in the past, the driver received inaccurate or incomplete information, causing one car to block another car. The radio message is the reason for blocking other drivers, but this does not become a factor to reduce the punishment. Therefore, we impose a standard penalty for retrenching three positions in the future."

, Strolle was also fined to retrench three positions for retrenching Gasley in Q1. The accident occurred in Q1, when Stroll was told that he needed to get Gasley, who was running fast lap, but he did not inform him that Hamilton was approaching. Then Stroul successfully allowed Hamilton to overtake, but he was "influenced by the sunlight" and could not tell which driver he had surpassed and immediately drove back to the racing line, but he blocked Gasley at the T10 Nouvelle Chicane. After the investigation, the referee ruled that Strolle was an obstacle to the driver and violated Article 37.5 of the FIA ​​F1 race rules and was punished by withdrawing from three positions in the future. This is the second time Stroel was sent off this weekend. He suddenly changed the driving line on Friday, causing Leclerc in the rear to dodge and run after he could not chase. At that time, the referee ruled that Stroul was fully responsible for the accident, so he was fined one step back and four points were fined.

Stroel finished 19th in the past qualifying round, but because Bielman was fined 10th place and fell to the last place for overtaking Red Flag in the second place, Stroel was able to maintain the qualification to start at the 19th place. The referee said in the judgment: "The referee team listened to the statements of the drivers of Car No. 18, Car No. 10 and the representatives of the team, and checked the positioning system, track indication system data, video, timing data, remote data, fleet radio and on-board cameras."

"Car No. 18 was notified by the team before passing T10 that Car No. 10 was in the timing circle, but from the radio call content, it can be seen that the team did not further remind the drivers of Car No. 18 about the car No. 44 he had passed earlier (Lewis). Hamilton is also approaching and is about to overtake Car No. 18. The driver of Car No. 18 mistakenly thought that only one car needed to pass, so when he saw Car No. 44 (not in fast lap at the time) surpassing him, he returned to the racing line, which hindered Car No. 10, which was running fast lap. "

" At the hearing, the driver of Car No. 18 said that due to the sunlight, he could not clearly identify which car he surpassed him. The referee team accepted this explanation and believed that his move was a misjudgment, but it still constituted an hindrance to the driver's behavior. Therefore, according to the customary punishment, he ordered to retreat three places to start." The Monaco Grand Prix will be held at 21:00 on Sunday.