Alpine to protest Alonso penalty

Alpine is to protest the admissibility of the Haas protest that led to Fernando Alonso being demoted from seventh to fifteenth.

Shortly after the race, Haas protested the vehicles of Sergio Perez and Alonso for persevering with to race while in an unsafe situation – particularly the unfastened endplate on the Mexican’s automobile and the lacking mirror on the Spaniard’s.

Haas was involved that whereas each vehicles had been allowed to proceed, 3 times this season its drivers have been proven the black-and-orange flag having incurred injury that, so far as the stewards had been involved, necessitated instant restore.

Whereas the protest of the Purple Bull was thrown out, that of the Alpine was upheld and the motive force handed a 10s penalty, which post-race amounted to 30s, thereby dropping him from seventh out of the factors to fifteenth.

The French workforce has now protested the choice.

“BWT Alpine F1 Staff is dissatisfied to obtain a post-race time penalty for Automobile #14 from right this moment’s United States Grand Prix, which sadly means Fernando strikes to exterior the points-paying positions,” it stated in an announcement.

“The workforce acted pretty and deemed the automobile remained structurally secure on account of Fernando’s incident with Lance Stroll on lap 22 of the race with the right-side rear view wing mirror detaching from the chassis on account of accident injury brought on by Stroll.

“The FIA has the proper to black and orange flag a automobile in the course of the race in the event that they think about it unsafe and, on this event, they assessed the automobile and determined to not motion the flag. Furthermore, after the race, the FIA technical delegate thought-about the automobile authorized.

The workforce additionally believes as a result of protest being lodged 24 minutes previous the desired deadline, it mustn’t have been accepted and subsequently the penalty must be thought-about as invalid.

“Because of this level, the workforce has protested the admissibility of the unique Haas F1 Staff protest.”

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