George Russell asks for ‘common sense approach’ to FIA penalties

Mercedes AMG driver George Russell thinks that FIA needs to apply common sense in handing out penalties for infringements where visibility is a real problem for drivers.

Russell spoke after Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso was handed a five- second penalty for lining up slightly out of position on the starting grid in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

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The Spaniard was then handed a further 10-second post-race penalty, overturned on review, when the rear jack touched his stationary car before the five-second penalty had been fully served in the pits.

“I feel like some of these penalties have been a little bit too extreme,” Russell said in Jeddah. “I think a little bit of common sense needs to be shown,” added the Brit.