Aston Martin has lodged a petition to evaluate the 10-second time penalty and three factors on Alonso’s licence that have been handed down for a collision he had with Carlos Sainz within the Chinese language Grand Prix dash.
A stewards’ assembly has been known as for 8am in Miami on Friday to guage whether or not or not Aston Martin has gathered a major and related sufficient new piece of proof to justify a contemporary listening to over the matter.
Talking forward of the Miami GP, Alonso didn’t wish to go into too many particulars concerning the case, however mentioned there have been some essential solutions that Aston Martin was chasing.
And particularly, the Spaniard says that they need some readability by way of why he seems to have been singled out so harshly for incidents in current races – which included the sanction he obtained for his defensive driving towards George Russell on the ultimate lap of the Australian GP that triggered a crash.
“Clearly we now have totally different opinions, however this occurs in any sport,” mentioned Alonso.
Carlos Sainz, Ferrari SF-24, Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin AMR24, George Russell, Mercedes F1 W15
Photograph by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Photographs
“Even while you watch soccer on TV, relying on which workforce you might be, it is a yellow card or purple card or not. I believe we could have totally different opinions as nicely all the time.
“However I believe that in China, I believe 99% of the individuals have been having fun with the dash occasion and the battles, and I believe I had the toughest penalty of the race.
“So possibly it was slightly bit complicated there, however let’s have a look at tomorrow.”
And with penalties having been given to him in each Australia and China, Alonso reckoned that it was essential that he and the workforce obtained some solutions about why sure choices had been taken.
“The principles are the principles, and we settle for these,” he mentioned. “Typically we agree, generally we disagree, however we now have to just accept it as a result of they [the stewards] have all the ability to make these choices, and so they have all of the understanding of the principles.
“However, as I mentioned, I had the toughest penalty within the final two occasions in Australia and in China, so it is good to guarantee that all the pieces is okay and nothing else is going on.”
