Lance Stroll has been hit with a three-place grid penalty for the next F1 race in Mexico after causing a collision with Fernando Alonso in the USGP
Prior to the post-race investigation, Stroll insisted he had given Alonso “plenty of room”"I was judging more or less, kind of picking where he was behind me. But it's not like I hit him on the side of his car. The impact is still his front wing to the rear of my car.
"I gave him plenty of room on the left of the track, so it's not like I squeezed him or anything like that against a wall. He could have moved earlier and went more to the left. He didn't have to get so close to me either.Two-time world champion Alonso described the crash as a “racing incident” and refused to pin the blame on Stroll."We move at the same time to the left and that was the trigger of everything. I think it was very unfortunate for everyone.
"We were OK in the stewards' room. I think it was more between our sporting directors than between us. I think we saw the incident with the same eyes and our sporting directors were seeing it with completely different eyes! "When you are at 300 those movements... in one tenth of a second you move 200 meters. So if you see it in slow motion and you go frame-by-frame he will move a little bit later than me.
"If you go normal speed, you see both cars more or less at the same time. That's why after looking on TV I think there's nothing you can do differently."