Fernando Alonso in trouble for criticism of Miami delegates


Fernando Alonso has an appointment with the FIA ​​to explain his hurtful criticism of the Miami Grand Prix stewards.

The Spaniard, in what was for him a particularly eventful Miami Grand Prix, was handed two separate five-second penalties that kept him out of the points.

The Alpine The driver was first penalized for hitting Pierre Gasly when he was attempting an ambitious overtaking move.

He was also subsequently penalized for running off the track and gaining a lead, leaving him with a final position of 11th.

Alonso said he and team representatives went to discuss the second penalty with the FIA, believing the 40-year-old had done enough to give back the time he had gained, but were packing up to go home and leaving. They refused to listen to his explanation.

“We arrived after the race with all the tests to turn back time and they were packing their bags, they weren’t even in the room,” Alonso said at the Spanish Grand Prix press conference.

“We went there, we showed them all the data, they found their hands tied because they had already issued the sanction and they did not know how to get back from that document.

“We think it was very unfair and that it was just the incompetence of the stewards. They were not very professional.”

Those comments have gone down like a lead balloon with the FIA ​​which, the BBC reported, called Alonso to see them.

Certainly he was also not an outlier within the Alpine team in his belief that the penalty was unfair because his CEO, Laurent Rossi, hinted at it in the days after the race, albeit not as forcefully.

Alonso is understood to have infringed articles 12.2.1 f and 12.2.1 k of the FIA ​​International Sporting Code. Article 12.2.1 f states “any word, deed or writing that has caused non-material damage or loss to the FIA, its organs, its members or its executive officers, and more generally in the interest of motorsport and the values ​​defended by the FIA. FIA”. be considered a violation of the rules.

Article 12.2.1k, for its part, states that the rules can be infringed if there is “any misconduct towards license holders, officials, officers or staff members of the FIA, members of the staff of the organizer or promoter, members of competitors’ personnel, doping control officials or any other person involved in doping control”.

Alonso was seen having an animated conversation with Mohammed ben Sulayem, the FIA ​​president, in the Circuit de Catalunya paddock on Friday.

Assisting race director Niels Wittich in Miami were stewards Garry Connelly, Felix Holter, Dennis Dean and former F1 driver Danny Sullivan.

The Barcelona panel consists of Tim Mayer, Nish Shetty, David Domingo and former driver Tonio Liuzzi, with Eduardo Freitas as race director for the first time.

On Friday they reprimanded Alonso for hindering Lewis Hamilton at turn 12 of FP1.

Alonso will most likely issue a warning for his comments directed at the Miami Grand Prix stewards.




Reference-www.planetf1.com

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