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Fernando Alonso received a drive through penalty which converted to 20 seconds added to the elapsed time in the race and 3 penalty points (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/formula1

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Alonso is demoted to P8. Stroll: P7-> P6 Tsunoda: P8-> P7

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fernando isn't guilty of anything more than the drivers desperately holding on to P10 for the final point every race or sandbagging to help a teammate, and I don't recall a penalty of this severity getting dumped on any of them.

George reacted too slowly, probably thinking about the move he was going to make instead of the action happening in front of him.

I'm not saying it was fair or George was at fault, but I don't agree with the penalty applied either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I think any driver defending in a manner that puts the other driver at risk should be penalized. That's not a controversial opinion, we literally have rules against such behavior when it's very obvious (break checking and weaving). In this case he slowed down into a turn where he was guaranteed to get in Russell's way. Even if Russell had reacted in time he still would've been forced to slow down because it would've been next to impossible for him to pass Alonso in that turn. And we know what happened when Russell didn't react in time. It's erratic driving by Alonso and that deserves a penalty.