Drivers unhappy at Monaco stewarding

A number of drivers are unhappy at the lack of penalties being handed out for blocking in Monaco.

Traffic is often an issue during the Monaco Grand Prix weekend, with Q1 seeing all 20 cars on track in a short window chasing lap times. On more than one occasion there was a train of cars slowly approaching Rascasse and the final Anthony Noghes corner as drivers looked for clear air to carry out a lap.

One incident saw Fernando Alonso exit Rascasse on a flying lap to find Romain Grosjean coasting before starting his own timed lap, with the Lotus holding up the McLaren through the final corner. Having referenced a number of other times he was blocked, when asked by F1i if he was surprised by the lack of penalties being handed out, Alonso replied: "I think so, yes.

"The traffic we had this weekend was quite bad. It seems a little bit strange there are not more investigations going on and in free practice it was just ridiculous. In FP3 there was just no rules out there, people were going out of the pit lane on a very slow out lap, you were on a fastest lap and they tried to close the door in every single braking point."

Jenson Button concurred with Alonso's thoughts, feeling the number of out laps required to warm up the tyres is a contributing factor.

"Totally agree [with Alonso]," Button said. "It feels the worst it has been but we're going to do it unless there's a penalty. That's the problem."

Button also said the matter would be brought up with FIA race director Charlie Whiting at the next drivers' briefing.

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