Lance Stroll, Aston Martin, Monaco, 2025

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.

This article will be updated

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