Red Bull's Pierre Gasly and Alfa Romeo driver Antonio Giovinazzi have both been handed three place grid drops for the start of tomorrow's Monaco Grand Prix. Both penalties were for blocking rival cars during today's qualifying session. The race stewards said a share of the blame lay with the drivers' respective teams for not giving them sufficient warning of approaching traffic. In Gasly's case the alleged blocking took place in the second round when he appeared to hold up Haas driver Romain Grosjean. "The driver of car eight had to brake hard to avoid colliding with car 10 which was going slowly on a preparation lap, and was on the race line," explained the race stewards in an...
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