In Saturday’s sprint race, Alonso was offered a 10-second charge for a glancing accident with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz towards completion of the race, which led to Alonso retiring with a leak.
The next day Stroll got a comparable charge for crashing into the back of RB’s Daniel Ricciardo under security vehicle conditions, which triggered terminal damage for the Australian and likewise harmed Oscar Piastri’s McLaren
Having actually evaluated the steward’s swift charge choice for Stroll as “extremely severe”, Krack went on to state the “stewards have actually been difficult to Fernando and Lance just recently”.
That consists of Alonso’s charge for ‘possibly unsafe driving’ in Australia, where his very early braking for a corner captured out the chasing Mercedes of George Russellwho crashed off in his filthy air.
“We had it in the sprint race, we had it in Melbourne, we had with Lance [here],” Krack stated.
“Last time it was the vehicle in front that got the charge [Alonso] in Melbourne, even without touching. This time, it was the vehicle behind.”
Krack indicated Stroll’s first-lap contact in Bahrain, in which he was spun around by Haas’ Nico Hu