Fernando Alonso has been heavily penalised by the Australian Grand Prix stewards for causing a crash that resulted in George Russell's Mercedes flipping onto its side.
The stewards agreed with this accusation, finding Alonso guilty of "potentially dangerous" driving. As a result, he was given a 20-second post-race penalty, which dropped him from sixth to eighth place and added three penalty points to his licence. Alonso explained to the stewards that he intended to approach Turn Six differently, lifting earlier, and with less speed into the corner, to get a better exit, reports the Mirror.
The stewards discovered that "telemetry shows that Alonso lifted slightly more than 100m earlier than he ever had going into that corner during the race", and that he "also braked very slightly at a point that he did not usually brake and he downshifted at a point he never usually downshifted. He then upshifted again, and accelerated to the corner before lifting again to make the corner.
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