Romain Grosjean remains annoyed by the "joke" grid penalty awarded to him by t🐭he F﷽ormula 1 stewards over the Chinese Grand Prix weekend after being deemed to have ignored yellow flags.

Grosjean was given a five-place grid drop after the stewards felt he did not back off enough in 🍨response to yellow flags shown at the end of Q1 in Sha🃏nghai following a crash for Antonio Giovinazzi.

The Haas driver vented his frustration at the time, taking to Twitter to prove he did back off significantly, and believes there should be greater consistency i✤n stewarding decisions.

"ܫI'm not a🍨ngry, I just thought it was a joke," Grosjean said. "I think we need consistency and we need better judgement. That was a bit strange. I tweeted the data because I was so annoyed. There's nothing we can do. We cannot even appeal the decision."

Grosjean felt frustrated by the inability to respond to a stewards' decision, reveal▨ing that race director Charlie Whiting actually agreed that he had slowed down enough.

"We discussed with Charlie, and after this discussion I believe he agreed I had done 💮enough, but the penalty was already done," Grosjean said.

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"What I think could have happened is you go there, you explain what happened and they call you back, and say that's what we're going to give you. Then you can argue a bit more. Because if you go there to the stewards and the first thing you do is give a lot of explanation, I did that, I did thꦺat, ꦜI didn't open the DRS, it looks like you are guilty."

Grosjean added that the death of Jules Bianchi from head injuries sustained at the 2014 Japa🌳nese Grand Prix acted as a stark remind▨er to the entire grid about responses to yellow flags, meaning stewards should not assume they do not take the cautions seriously.

"Hopefully we 🥀all know that this is a serious matter. Jules was a hard recall," Grosjean said.

"We know it's a serious matter. I believe I tweeted that as a serious𒈔 matter, that's why I was really annoyed. I really swore a little bit."

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