Alonso summoned to the F1 stewards for double yellow flag offence

Alonso summoned to the F1 stewards for double yellow flag offence

 

 

 
The incident occurred in the early stages of Q1 when Carlos Sainz lost control of his Ferrari at the opening sequence of corners.The Spaniard will have to see the stewards to protest his innocence to avoid a grid penalty.”ad_Should the stewards find him guilty, a five-place grid penalty is the likeliest outcome.Alonso enjoyed his best qualifying of the season, securing fifth on the grid for Sunday’s race – moving up one position thanks to Lewis Hamilton’s grid penalty.Ahead of the weekend, the two-time world champion was vocal in his criticism of the stewarding across the Russian GP weekend.Related Why Leclerc’s setup choice made for a “tricky” qualifying at F1’s Turkish Bottas ‘wasn’t asked’ to slow down to limit Hamilton’s F1 penalty“There are different rules for different people, or different, let’s say, talks the week after for different people,” he said in the pre-race press conference on Thursday. “Let’s see the next one that crosses the white line on the pit entry. Let’s see which nationality he is and which penalty he will get.”Sebastian Vettel was handed a five-place grid penalty at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix for a similar offence.Related Verstappen hails Red Bull F1’s turnaround after securing front-row start Hamilton expecting “difficult” recovery from 11th in Turkish GPWhile he did lift off, drivers are now expected to abort the lap entirely if there are double-waved yellow flags. 

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