Fernando Alonso wins bid to overturn penalty for incident with Haas

Alonso had been ♌penalised after finishing seventh in a car that had a lo🅠ose mirror, which eventually fell off.
Haas lodged a complaint at the veteran Spaniard🎉 on the grounds that he was driving unsafely.
Haas’ complaint was lod🤡ged outside of the allotted time but was upheld🅰 by the FIA anyway.
Alpine then requested a right to ꧟review t💞he FIA stewards’ decision.
But the FIA have now ruled in Alpine’s favour so Alonso will retain the six points he scored in Aus🌸tin.
Alonso had warned ahead of the ruling: "It will open a huge problem for the future in F1. I think 50, 60, 70 per cent of the cars will have to retire the car when they have an aerod✱ynamic device that is not properly fixed because it’s༺ going to be unsafe, the car.
“If 20 minutes too late is okay to protest, is one month too late? Is one hour toꦫo late? Is 10 years too late? When is too late? So as I said, this is a very important day for our sport. I don’t care about seventh, you know? I’m not fighting for the world championship. but if this goes ahead, I think we don’t want to open that box.”
Alonso had earlier been in a 180mph crash with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll - his future teammate when they line up together in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2023 driver line-up.
Alonso was lifted into the air and crashed back down - he 🤪rejoined last, before a brilliant ༺drive took him into the points.
Alonso enters the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 Mexico City Grand Prix ninth in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 standings.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sporꦕts for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to🐼 F1.