Alonso felt “dreary” sticking to F1 Flip 1 observe limits in Austria
Starting 14th on the grid on Sunday on the Crimson Bull Ring, the Alpine driver regarded to recede Charles Leclerc and Daniel Ricciardo up the interior at Flip 1 with a unhurried braking recede.
But Ricciardo kept his car out wide on the corner exit, working beyond the yellow sausage kerb and exceeding the common observe limits, staying sooner than Alonso as a end result.
It sparked an angry response from Alonso by technique of team radio, who told Alpine that the McLaren driver “obtained three or four positions… I reveal a penalty will reach very soon.”
Alonso added beneath the safety car: “He desires to resign a minimal of six positions. And he has to develop it now, no longer in the pit halt and all these items.”
The incident became once no longer formally investigated by the stewards, however they did leer at what occurred. Below the safety car, Ricciardo sat four locations away from Alonso, and would recede on to develop seventh for McLaren.
Speaking after the trudge in Austria, Alonso explained that the the same thing had occurred in the Styrian Enormous Prix one week earlier, leaving him frustrated.
“We raced two times right here in two weekends and I became once the most easy one overtaking vehicles originally and braking very unhurried at Flip 1 on the interior,” Alonso talked about. “I overtook Ricciardo and Leclerc this time, and they went off-observe on the exit of Flip 1 and they exited in front of me, and even bigger than that, they steal the urge on the next car in front thru the slipstream into Flip 3.
“I felt that became once very unfair this day but again. It became once supreme weekend, however this day I became once into Flip 1 in front of Charles and Ricciardo, and I exited Flip 1 50 metres in the lend a hand of Ricciardo.
“I became once the most easy one making the corner, so that you just’re feeling fairly of bit dreary.”
Alonso ran 15th in the lend a hand of the safety car, and became once ready to enhance to ranking one point for P10, however felt the next end result would safe been conceivable with out the Flip 1 moves.
“This day day initiating 14th, need to you is in all likelihood P11 or P12 on Lap 1, you may be ready to serene develop P8 or P7, so it became once certain to leer that.
“The day earlier than this day we couldn’t compete the lap attributable to traffic sadly, and this day by respecting the rules, we were P15 on the first lap.”
But FIA trudge director Michael Masi became once unmoved by Alonso’s grievance, believing that he had no longer misplaced any positions as a outcomes of drivers working wide on the outlet lap.
“Thought to be one of the predominant things that we now safe talked about, and this occurred since Paul Ricard 2019, became once that on the first lap and folks first couple of corners, that a car desires to be lend a hand in the lend a hand of the auto it entered the corner in the lend a hand of,” Masi talked about. “We regarded on the incident which Fernando became once referring to, and from the angles that we would possibly survey on the time, that became once exactly what had occurred.
“So as that’s the general precept, attributable to particularly in cases fancy that, every person has asked typically, to leer at those things to serve the drivers and the teams in the occasion that they need to.
“That became once regarded at on the time.”