Fernando Alonso has decided to take a step this weekend at the Miami Grand Prix, against the difference in criteria with which he is treated by the FIA stewards, when he is involved in an accident or when other drivers are, as happened in Saturday’s Sprint with Lewis Hamilton.
The Aston Martin driver met yesterday with the president of the International Federation, Mohammed ben Sulayem, As reported by the representative of the COPE and MARCA network, Carlos Miguel. It seems that the Asturian has expressed his worry for the way in which their maneuvers and way of driving are valued, always punished without observing any exonerating consideration.
This is how it happened in Australia, where he lost 20 seconds and three points in the Superlicense, for potentially dangerous driving in front of Russell, which ended up crashing and overturning on the track due to his own error. The same English pilot He admitted 15 days later that he was “looking at the steering wheel and changing some things, when I found myself on top of Fernando’s car.” I wasn’t paying attention, but that wasn’t taken into consideration when we’re talking about motor racing!
In China, in an action to the limit with Carlos Sainz and when both had very degraded tires in the Sprint on Saturday, Alonso slightly touched the Ferrari of the Madrid native, which also caused a puncture to his Aston and withdrawal. He had already abandoned, but that did not prevent them from imposing 10 second penalty and another three points on his card, where with 12 in a 12-month period, a career would be suspended.
Others, For much more serious actions they have barely taken two penalty points and Hamilton, not even thatsince his action in taking three cars, two of them unable to continue, did not even mean a reprimand for the Englishman for driving “reckless”. This is how Lando cataloged it Norrisone of those affected.
They do not accept Aston Martin’s review request
The non-acceptance of the FIA of the review of the sanction in China, requested by Aston Martin this weekend and of which the FIA He has not even responded officially in his communication table and the action of Lewis, who took Fernando as a sandwich in a game of bowling, have determined Alonso to express his discomfort to the head of the FIA.
In the internal war of the FIA and it with F1, where relationships that are not good, Mohammed ben Sulayem was accused this year of trying to influence commissioners’ decisions in 2023, In another case like that of Alonso in Arabia and the passage of the cat touching his car without working on it. In the end they backed down and restored the podium they had given to George Russell. But an FIA worker complained about phone calls of the president to try to influence, when a month ago It became clear that this was not the case after an internal investigation of the Federation itself.
A devalued Sprint
With what happened in the first Sprint of the year and the sanction to Fernando, The format will remain just another free practice session, because as Alonso himself says, “It’s useless. They don’t allow us to fight so we take it to improve things for the race.” F1 should be attentive to the disparate criteria of the FIA stewards, who caGrand Prix changes its panel of judges and whose way of solving has nothing to do with that of the previous ones.
It is not known where Alonso’s complaint to the president will end, which I already had the idea two years ago of creating a specific body of stewards for F1, a permanent team formed expressly for that and not by former drivers, like Jhonnie Herbert, who also has a declared animosity on television towards the Asturian.
In a sport in which so much is at stake economically, It is not acceptable that justice falls on amateurs or pilots of various modalities or from a time in F1 when the cars had nothing to do with the current ones. There is a lot at stake.
