Romain Grosjean remains annoyed by the "joke" grid penalty awarded to himꦑ by the Formula 1 stewards over the Chinese Graꦕnd 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 Shanghai following a crash for Antonio Giovin🦹azzi.

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 in stewarding decisions.

"I'm not angry, I just thought it was a joke," Grosjean said. "I think we need consistency and we need better judgement. ꦡThat 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 a൲ stewards' decision, revealing that race director Charlie Whiting actually agreed that he had slowed down enough.

"We discussed with Charlie, and after this discussion I belieꦦve 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 that, I didn't open ꦉthe DRS, it looks like you are guilty."

Grosjean added that the death of Jules Bianchi from head injuries sustained ᩚᩚᩚ♏ᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚat the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix acted as a stark reminder 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. Jul♉es was a hard recall," Grosjean said.

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

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