Fernando Alonso has been penalized with 30 seconds at the end of the United States Grand Prix ( Austin), in which he made magic in a memorable performance achieving an epic seventh position with a damaged car after a brutal crash caused by Lance Stroll in which the Spanish Alpine flew out. With this sanction Alonso falls from the points by dropping from seventh to fifteenth position.
Fernando Alonso’s sanction was issued after a complaint from the Haas team for running Fernando Alonso first with the mirror loose and then without it.
The stewards were “deeply concerned that car 14 (Fernando Alonso) was not shown a black and orange flag (shown to a competitor judged to have suffered mechanical damage requiring immediate attention in the pits), or at least a radio call to rectify the situation, despite… two calls to Race Control by the Haas Team.”
Alpine shared on their social media that “The BWT Alpine F1 Team is disappointed to receive a post-race time penalty for its number 14 car (Fernando Alonso) at today’s United States Grand Prix, which unfortunately means that Fernando falls out of the points positions The team acted correctly and felt the car remained structurally safe after Fernando’s incident with Lance Stroll on lap 22 of the race with the right hand side mirror detached from the chassis as a result of the accident damage caused by Stroll”.
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