Fernando Alonso’s latest statements regarding the FIA and his performance in the last Grand Prix have brought a tail, so much so that the governing body of Formula 1 will treat in a special way what was expressed by the Alpine driver.
Personal opinions in Formula 1 they are not usually to the liking of those in charge of the queen category of motorsport when they give a negative value to the work carried out by the FIA in the ‘Great Circus’.
The conclusion of the 2021 season, with everything that happened between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton after a year plagued by daggers both ways between Red Bull and Mercedes, embodied in Christian Horner and Toto Wolff, it was a difficult situation to resolve in which the governing body of F1 ended up dismissing Michael Masi.
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The last to issue a verdict contrary to that of the FIA has been Fernando Alonso: The two-time Spanish champion has made his discomfort with the stewards latent after what happened in the last Miami Grand Prix, where a second sanction, filed hours after the end of the race, left him without points in his locker.
Already at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on the occasion of the Spanish GP, the #14 has highlighted the “incompetence” and “unprofessionalism” of the FIA recently, revealing that there were not even FIA personnel in the offices when he and Alpine went to them to show him evidence that could free him from said sanction.
Moreover, Alonso even assures that “they saw their hands tied because they had already issued the sanction and did not know how to reverse that document”, pointing with the “lack of knowledge” by Niels Wittichone of the F1 race directors from this year along with Eduardo Freitas
According to Andrew Benson of the BBCthe FIA has forwarded Alonso’s criticism to the commissionersso the Spaniard could face the consequences of his statements on the track or financially.
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However, Alonso’s last run-in with the FIA will not be that, but the investigation of an action on the track by the Alpine driver against Lewis Hamilton, his former teammate years ago.
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In the first free practice sessions of the weekend in Barcelona, Alonso hampered the #44 in the last stage of the Circuitwhich meant that the man from Mercedes had to get on the curb and practically use the outside of the track to avoid contact with the Spaniard.
This is just the last chapter of a peculiar film that promises more chapters and sequels, with consequences that we will continue to tell you about in Motor.es.