The 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix ended in confusion on Sunday. After he celebrated on the podium, the stewards demoted Fernando Alonso to fourth place by imposing a ten-second post-race penalty for incorrectly serving his five-second penalty on lap 18. The debate centred around whether an Aston Martin mechanic had touched the car with a jack while waiting for Alonso to serve the penalty in his pitbox. However, the penalty was overturned and the podium reinstated after Aston Martin appealed, presenting minutes from a meeting of F1’s sporting advisory group that discussed seven similar instance where drivers weren’t penalised. READ: Lewis Hamilton won’t quit Mercedes despite George...
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