Mar.27 One of the highest ranking Spanish motor racing officials has slammed the highly controversial penalty levied against Fernando Alonso in Melbourne. Some think George Russell crashed heavily in the closing moments of the Australian GP because he was ‘brake-tested' by Alonso – a highly dangerous manoeuvre. Others, though, slammed the FIA stewards, including former F1 driver Johnny Herbert, who has had several arguments with two-time champion Alonso in the past. 'That Herbert decides something that harms Alonso seems somewhat reprehensible to me,' Joaquin Verdegay, vice president of Spain's motor racing federation, the RFEdA, told Soy Motor. 'It's well known that their...
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