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Mercedes refuse to confirm they were responsible for Fernando Alonso's penalty

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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