Ricciardo gets his right on stewards: "Stroll should have been punished"
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- GPblog.com
Daniel Ricciardo is full in the preparations for the Hungarian Grand Prix, but also looks back on the events of the Styrian Grand Prix. There he was driven off the track in the final laps of the race by Lance Stroll, who won a spot. The stewards saw the first one as a race incident, but they changed their opinion later.
"If it happens again in the future, we'll have to change places. In the end, the stewards decided that from now on they're going to do things differently. That's frustrating, of course, as you can't go back and change the result," Ricciardo explained to Motorsport.com.
Not equal to the duel between Charles and Max
"Somewhere nice, now that I know this kind of incident won't happen again, so I can take that with me. Last week, however, I thought it should be clearer. We talked about it, also about why I left the job. I explained then that that wasn't my choice. They then said that next time they are going to do things differently", according to Ricciardo.
The incident had similar events to the duel between Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen one year earlier, so the stewards decided not to punish in this case either. In the end, Ricciardo convinced the stewards of his right. "They are now aware that there was a difference between my incident and the incident between Charles and Max. At first, the stewards thought it was the same thing, which meant that no penalty was given. But now they think differently," Ricciardo concludes.