Fernando Alonso

Alonso finished third but did not adequately serve a penalty he was given in the race, meaning he was slapped with a second punishment and will lose his ...

[Aston Martin](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/aston-martin-f1) well off the track and apparently in a safe area. [Max Verstappen](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/max-verstappen) finished second despite starting 15th on the grid. [Mercedes](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/mercedes-f1) drivers. The [Red Bulls](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/red-bull-f1) were by far the quickest cars on track again in Jeddah and the Mexican rarely looked under threat from anyone, after moving back past Alonso when the Spaniard beat him off the line. So Alonso was given a further 10-second penalty after the end of the race. But he was soon being probed by the race stewards who were looking into a penalty he had been given earlier in the race. He thought he had served it when he made his pit stop, but footage showed the rear jack was in contact with the car before the five seconds had passed. [The FIA](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/fia-world-motor-sport-council) released a statement explaining the stewards' decision, which read: "From the initial camera angles available the exact position of the stopped car (STR) was unclear, and therefore safety car was deployed as the safest option." [Lewis Hamilton](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/lewis-hamilton) was a few tenths of a second too far back from the Spaniard to also leapfrog the [Aston Martin](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/aston-martin-f1) race and will stay in fifth place. [the winner of the race, Sergio Perez](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/breaking-saudi-verstappen-safety-car-29498348). [George Russell](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/george-russell). [Fernando Alonso](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/fernando-alonso) must wait longer for his 100th podium in [Formula 1](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/) after being demoted to fourth place in the [Saudi Arabian Grand Prix](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/saudi-arabian-grand-prix) by the stewards.

Fernando Alonso has been demoted for being found to have not served his five-second penalty correctly during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

Despite contact with the rear of his car appearing to be minimal, a strict enforcement of the rule has come into place from the FIA and a 10-second penalty was applied, dropping Alonso down a place and putting him back down to 99 career podiums in Formula 1. The Spaniard had already been penalised for lining up in his grid slot incorrectly at the start, his Aston Martin being parked too far to the left and the stewards responding by forcing the Aston Martin driver to wait in his pit box for five seconds before his car could be worked on at his first stop. Fernando Alonso has been demoted from the podium by the FIA stewards for being found to have not served his five-second penalty correctly during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, being given a further 10-second penalty after one of his mechanics made contact with his car before the five seconds had elapsed in the pit lane.

The Spanish driver was handed a five-second penalty at the beginning of the race due to being misplaced in his grid box, which he served during a pitstop.

Fernando Alonso has been given a time penalty at the end of the Saudi Arabian GP.

[Alpine driver was given a hat-trick of penalties](https://racingnews365.com/alpine-explain-spiralling-events-that-led-to-ocon-penalty-hat-trick). [George Russell](/formula-1-drivers/george-russell) to fourth place, denying him of his 100th podium. [Lance Stroll](/formula-1-drivers/lance-stroll).

Fernando Alonso has been stripped of what would have been his 100th Formula One podium after a postrace penalty at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

"Today is not good for the fans," the Spaniard said. "If he was third in the race he should enjoy the podium and not me, I feel sorry for George, for Mercedes sponsors, for George's fans." "I feel sorry for the fans, but I enjoyed the podium, I took the trophy, I have the pictures, I celebrate with the champagne, and now 15 or 12 points doesn't change much for me, but it is a little bit sad for the FIA, yes."

Fernando Alonso may have celebrated his 100th rostrum appearance in F1 at the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix – but the joy was short-lived, ...

Fernando Alonso may have celebrated his 100th rostrum appearance in F1 at the 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix – but the joy was short-lived, after the stewards handed him a 10-second penalty after the race that dropped him to P4. [stunning launch](https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.race-start-alonso-pinches-the-lead-from-pole-sitter-perez-as-the-saudi.Ejca9YDdgebxPEujCuE73.html) from second on the grid to pass pole-sitter and eventual race winner Sergio Perez into Turn 1. Well, let F1 TV presenter Alex Brundle explain all…

Fernando Alonso has hit out at the FIA after a post-race 10-second time penalty demoted him from third to fourth at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

So I cannot really say at the moment where this is going to go," Krack told Sky Sports F1. "I was on the podium, I did pictures, I took the trophy, I celebrated and now I have apparently three points less. "They had enough time to inform about the penalty. OK, let's try and recover in Australia." [Stream the biggest moments on NOW](https://www.nowtv.com/promo/sky-sports?dcmp=articlelink) Even though the incident happened on the 19th lap, Alonso was only handed the penalty after the race and celebrations had been completed, prompting him to call the decision a "poor show" from the FIA.

Despite finishing in P3 in Sunday's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix at Jeddah Corniche Circuit — and partaking in the podium celebration along with Sergio Pérez and ...

And as Alonso himself stated after the Grand Prix, “[w]hen you have 35 laps to apply the penalty and you wait until after the podium, there is something wrong in the system.” “In the circumstances, we considered that our original decision to impose a penalty on Car 14 needed to be reversed and we did so accordingly.” This was likely the correct result, but the bigger question might be this: Why did it take so long for Alonso and Aston Martin to be told this was even a possibility? While the team believed they were “in the clear,” they wanted to be as safe as possible. The race went on, and Alonso maintained his spot in third place behind the Red Bull duo. When a safety car came out after his teammate Lance Stroll suffered a failure, Alonso served that five-second penalty during his pit stop.

Fernando Alonso has been reinstated to third position at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to cap a farcical couple of hours which followed the podium ceremony.

"This topic will therefore be addressed at the next Sporting Advisory Committee taking place on Thursday, 23 March, and a clarification will be issued ahead of the 2023 FIA Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix. An FIA statement said: "The request to the Stewards for review of the initial decision (Document 51) was made in the last lap of the race. The subsequent decision of the stewards to hear and grant the Right of Review by the Competitor was the result of new evidence regarding the definition of 'working on the car', for which there were conflicting precedents, and this has been exposed by this specific circumstance.