Grosjean: I think it's Vettel that made a mess here

Race stewards deemed Grosjean the guilty party and penalised him for impeding the McLaren rookie, but the Frenchman and Norris, agree that Vettel was the one to blame for what transpired on the night.

Grosjean said he apologised to Norris afterwards and added, “You shit yourself, honestly, when you drive that slow and other cars are on a flying lap... it's just carnage."

“It's probably something we need to look at in the future because it's been raised in the past. I think it's Vettel that made a mess here, he didn't really respect the unwritten rule that you don't overtake before the last corner."

“He passed the queue, came in front of me, so that gave me another three or four seconds to wait. We had not accounted for the fact that Vettel would do that, therefore we thought we were clear of Norris."

“That's probably why they didn't tell me that Norris was on a flying lap. We're normally very good with traffic I think, but today obviously we got it wrong," explained the Frenchman.

Norris backed Grosjean's explanation, “To be fair to him he only had three seconds for his team to tell him I was behind if they didn’t already. It would have been very hard for him if he didn’t know to suddenly change his whole approach and giving up his whole lap."

“From what he said he didn’t know I was behind until I was pretty much about to crash into him. Vettel screwed him over, which is not a very nice thing to do in terms of us being racers, we try to respect each other."

“If you’ve got a car ahead you don’t just overtake them into the final corner, like Magnussen and Fernando last year in Monza, because you kind of screw both your qualifying laps."

“I think he did what he could when he knew, but he did impede me. If I didn’t get to do a second quali lap for whatever reason, that’s the reason I wouldn’t have been in Q2.”

Vettel went on to qualify second, with Grosjean ending eighth on the timing screens and Norris in tenth. The penalty means that the Haas driver drops to 11th on the grid and promotes Norris to ninth for Sunday's race