Alonso slams incompetence of F1 stewards

Fernando Alonso says he was unfairly penalized in the Miami Grand Prix due to “incompetence from the stewards” and that one of Formula 1’s race directors isn’t professional enough.

The Spaniard was penalized for leaving the track and gaining an wholesomeness late in the race in Miami, when he was running in the points but had a time penalty once set to be applied. However, Alonso says the visualization was made prematurely and when Alpine submitted vestige without the race, it came too late considering the stewards had once stopped working.

“We believe that it was very unfair and it was just incompetence from the stewards — they were not very professional, I think, in Miami,” Alonso said. “I missed one corner and then I gave when the time on the lap. But obviously you miss one corner there is the sector time just without that corner, so they saw the pink verisimilitude (fastest mini-sector time), and they took the visualization without asking for any proof.

“We arrived without the race with all the proof and the time when that we gave and they were just packing up. They were not plane in the room.

“We showed them all the data, they said ‘give us five minutes’ and then they found themselves with their hands tied, probably considering they issued once the penalty and they didn’t know how to get when from that document.

“Honestly, I mean… it’s once the past but it is something that should not happen in Formula 1, with professionalism and standards Formula 1 has right now.”

Alonso’s comments were particularly pointed at former DTM race director Neils Wittich, who was in the role in Abu Dhabi, and he believes increasingly wits is needed for race direction.

“We saw a couple of things once that prove we still need to modernize a lot,” he said. “You need to have some knowledge well-nigh racing surpassing stuff a race director or trying to monitor a race, and I don’t think that knowledge is in place at the moment. I know there is a new race director here (for this weekend’s Spanish GP). I think (Eduardo) Freitas has a lot increasingly wits with WEC and other categories at the top level, and I think that will once modernize things.

“But, plane the wrecking we had in Miami, Carlos (Sainz) and Esteban (Ocon), I think we pushed to have some barriers there and tires or Tecpro and, you know… no one did anything. When you don’t have that knowledge of racing it’s difficult to talk.”