This Thursday, the FIAin his intention to increase his transparency, he published two documents. The first is a penalty guide to understand what sanctions will be applied according to each case. And then, another guide to clarify what movements the pilots can make in different assumptions, such as melee struggles. Two documents of 13 and 5 pagesrespectively, that the pilots already knew, but now they are made public for everyone.
He spoke about it Fernando Alonso at his press conference with the media written in Hospitality by Aston Martin. According to 'Marca', the Asturian took importance to such a sum of paper rules and pages full of letters, but he did attack again the penalties of points in the pilot card, in which each ath Verstappen Only 1 point of that sanction before this Monday is cleaned two of those lost points.
The Ovetense said that, rather than thinking about the rules, it ends up driving “Naturally and you follow your instinct by advancing or defending”.
“If there is a contact or something happens, you need a regulation so that someone from outside can judge and make a decision, but I do not know how other pilots do. When I am in the car and I defend myself, I do it the same as my whole career. And when I attacked, I do it in the same way. I do not think, if” on this page it says this, in curve four, and then I go for it '” commented.
Fernando Alonso does not change anything that the FIA has published a document to clarify penalties and actions
And for Alonso, more than documents full of rules, the key is to use coherence.
“I try to advance and have no contact because my car could be damaged and not adding points. When I defend myself, I try to defend myself strongly, but at the same time, sometimes you cannot waste time because they have a different strategy or is not your career. So some of the things that happen are simply because you do not have a complete vision of the situation of the race and you are concentrated in that specific battle. Sometimes it is better to lose a battle and win the war, “the Ovetense argued.
Fernando Alonso, in the Austria GP of F1 2025
Load against penalty points
Fernando He was more forceful when talking about the sanction points in the pilot card. The Asturian pilot, as he has repeated on several occasions, reiterated that for him it is not fair that a pilot is penalized for something that is produced by a pilot error.
“In the preparation of the weekend, we talk about the height of the body, the changer, the tires, all that … the last thing I have in mind are the penalty points. I repeat the same thing I said last year: I think that penalty points should be applied by dangerous driving, not due to piloting errors, “ explained
“So, when you make a mistake and cross the white line, or when you make a mistake and exceed the speed in the boxing limiter because you pressed the button or attacked the curve with too much aggressiveness, or something like that, that is a pilot error and should be penalized with a drive-through, it should be penalized with five seconds, etc. If in the middle of the straight straight you can push someone towards the herb different, it should be penalized with a point because it is dangerous driving, “he explained, before launching a 'dart' to the FIA for the controversial sanction he received last year in Australia because the FIA considered that he raised his foot in a curve and this caused that Russellthat he was going after him, he would clash against the wall. George He made it clear that on that occasion he could distract him having looked at his steering wheel screen, but the FIA decided to apply a huge sanction to Fernando that he still remembers.
“Last year I received three penalty points, well, the toughest penalty in the last 25 years, a penalty of 20 seconds and three points on the license for an incident without contact”he ended in this regard.
