Alpine and Aston Martin teams have both been fined 5,000 euros by the Italian Grand Prix stewards for pitlane infractions that occurred in Friday's qualifying at Monza. The second segment of the early evening session was marked by a sudden melee in the pitlane when multiple cars rolled out of their respective garages to return to the track. Vettel was waved out into the path of the oncoming Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton, a clear unsafe release that justified Aston Martin's penalty fine. But simultaneously, an Alpine team member was deemed by the stewards to have committed an "unsafe act" when he stood in Vettel's path while waving out Esteban Ocon. "Several cars were released...
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