{"id":480929,"date":"2024-03-24T06:48:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T10:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=480929"},"modified":"2024-03-24T05:56:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T09:56:47","slug":"alonso-hit-with-20-seconds-penalty-in-australia-for-russell-crash","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/alonso-hit-with-20-seconds-penalty-in-australia-for-russell-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Alonso hit with 20-seconds penalty in Australia for Russell crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the finish of the Australian Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso received a 20-second time penalty from the stewards due to his driving behavior leading up to George Russell&#8217;s crash, which was deemed &#8220;potentially dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russell, driving for Mercedes, was closing in on Alonso&#8217;s Aston Martin with fresher tires in the final laps of the race. Approaching the Turn 6\/7 complex on the last lap, Russell lost control of his car and collided with the barriers after encountering the slower-moving Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>The stewards, including former F1 driver Johnny Herbert, reviewed the incident post-race and spoke with both drivers. They determined that Alonso&#8217;s driving warranted a penalty, converting it into a 20-second time penalty, causing him to drop from sixth to eighth place in the final standings. This promoted his teammate Lance Stroll and Red Bull&#8217;s Yuki Tsunoda.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Big impact for George Russell \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>Good to see the Mercedes man walk away unscathed from this crash \ud83d\udc4d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AusGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jsq6RZ1UBS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Jsq6RZ1UBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1771795980867743858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In their detailed report, the stewards explained that Alonso had altered his approach to Turn 6, intending to lift earlier and enter with less speed for a better exit. Russell described Alonso&#8217;s maneuver as erratic and unexpected, leading to a rapid closing of the gap and subsequent loss of control at the corner&#8217;s apex. Despite no contact between the cars, telemetry data revealed significant changes in Alonso&#8217;s driving pattern compared to previous laps.<\/p>\n<p>The stewards concluded that Alonso&#8217;s actions created a situation of potentially dangerous driving, as per the regulation stating that cars must not be driven unnecessarily slowly, erratically, or in a manner endangering other drivers or individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the finish of the Australian Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso received a 20-second time penalty from the stewards due to his driving behavior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":480935,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17468,17140],"news_category":[16921,14084],"gn_keywords":[18340,5792],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard deliberately slowed down in the last lap, which led to the incident","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480938,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/480929\/revisions\/480938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480929"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=480929"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=480929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}