Martin Brundle delivers his verdict on Fernando Alonso's tactics during his late battle with George Russell.
Alonso was slapped with a 20-second penalty for “potentially dangerous driving” in a Turn 6 incident that led to George Russell crashing out at the end of the Australian Grand Prix.
The two-time world champion protested that he had been battling battery problems on his car but Sky’s Brundle likened Alonso’s driving to a similar incident when he was fighting Coulthard at the Nurburgring in 2003. “Alonso claimed on the radio that he'd a throttle issue of some kind which is why he was slower than normal on the T6 corner,” Brundle wrote in his column for
“Alonso popped his saintly halo on and went to see the Race Stewards, explaining how he intended to approach turn six differently for a better exit speed which included decelerating 100 metres earlier, brushing the brake, and even a downshift.
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