{"id":132483,"date":"2025-09-10T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132483\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:00:10","slug":"aston-martin-explains-reason-for-lance-strolls-f1-italian-gp-media-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132483\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin explains reason for Lance Stroll&#8217;s F1 Italian GP media silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Martin Chief Trackside Officer Mike Krack shed light on the frustrations that left Lance Stroll almost mute in his post-race media session after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/racing\/2025\/italy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italian Grand Prix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/2025\/09\/09\/lance-stroll-leaves-media-floundering-in-strange-post-race-f1-italian-gp-interview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Canadian was a man of few words after the race at Monza on Sunday<\/a>, creating an awkward atmosphere with journalists floundering as they struggled to find further questions.<\/p>\n<p>Stroll had endured a miserable afternoon, finishing 18th \u2013 the last classified driver still running \u2013 having started 17th, after a risky strategy in which he pitted once towards the end.<\/p>\n<p>An incident with Esteban Ocon saw Stroll forced off the track which did little to lift his mood, causing the Haas driver to pick up a five-second penalty.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the incident, Stroll said: \u201cI don\u2019t have anything to say about it,\u201d having previously given two short answers to other questions, followed by leaving the session, having also ignored other questions.<\/p>\n<p>When told by other media about Stroll\u2019s near-silent appearance, Krack tried to explain what lay beneath his driver\u2019s frustrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an issue on the pit gantry that we need to understand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have downloaded now the log data, and this is another thing that we will have to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Aston-MartinLance-Stroll-F1-Italian-GP-1024x576.webp.webp\" alt=\"Aston Martin left Lance Stroll out in the hope of a late Safety Car at Monza, but one did not come\" class=\"wp-image-222342\"  \/>Aston Martin left Lance Stroll out in the hope of a late Safety Car at Monza, but one did not come<\/p>\n<p>Krack added that the team\u2019s decision to leave Stroll out for so long was down to a game of risk, saying that the team was banking on a late Safety Car to enable to have a chance of moving up the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think with these situations, when you have a race with almost no degradation, and you start from the back, you have to hope for opportunities,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you know, we get always Safety Cars when we have done our pit stop, so we said, \u2018Let\u2019s wait until the Safety Car comes this time\u2019, and then it doesn\u2019t come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you know, it is normal that then you are frustrated because you are fighting for nothing, although you\u2019re pushing to the limit. So I can understand a certain level of frustration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a miserable afternoon for Aston Martin, with Fernando Alonso\u2019s realistic shot at points ended early after a rear suspension failure.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/2025\/09\/09\/why-george-russell-cant-comprehend-current-f1-after-red-bulls-italian-gp-dominance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Why George Russell\u00a0\u2018can\u2019t\u00a0comprehend\u2019 current F1 after Italian GP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Martin Chief Trackside Officer Mike Krack shed light on the frustrations that left Lance Stroll almost mute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[18573,64,63,817,91797,91798,10310,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-132483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-astonmartin","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-italiangp","13":"tag-krack","14":"tag-lance-stroll","15":"tag-motor","16":"tag-motor-sports","17":"tag-motosport","18":"tag-motosports","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}