In the weekend in which the FIA has published the Regulations of Infractions, where the rules of the wheel to wheel are contained in a race and infractions, all the pilots have been asked about this issue. Fernando Alonso left Canada waiting for some of the pilots that preceded him were sanctioned In some of the eight open investigations, but it did not happen. That did not arrive “Fifth or fourth” that he expected and stayed in the seventh.
The normative published by La Fia, It is known by all pilots, but now becomes public, with things like where to be to be considered first in an inner or outside overtaking and the innumerable conditions. A 5 -page sheet that pilots cannot consider in half a second fighting for a position at more than 200 km/h.
For the Asturian it is somewhat simpler than all that. “Well, I think you finish driving naturally and follow your instinct by advancing or defending. If there is a contact or something happens, you need a regulation for someone from outside to judge and make a decision, but I don't know how other pilots do. As I said, when I am in the car and I defend myself, I do it the same as my entire career. And when I attacked, I do it in the same way. I do not think, 'on this page he says this, in curve four, and then I go for it' “ He pointed to the published regulation.
“Tried advance and have no contact because my car could be damaged and not add points. When I defend myself, I try to defend myself strongly, but at the same time, sometimes you can't waste time because they have a different strategy Or it 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, “he added, as something that has almost always been seen in him, the most intelligent or pertinent decision possible.
The points system and the dart
Max Verstappen is still aware here, In Austria, to be able to miss a race if they place a sanction of only one point in his license, because at the end of Sunday the two that he had for his clash with Norris in this layout in 2024 will expire.
Alonso all this matter seems to bother him, because he has already explained it many times, but he did it again. “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 that I said last year, I think that penalty points should be applied to dangerous driving, not to piloting errors “he says.
“So, when you make a mistake and cross the white line, or when you make an error 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 driving error and should be penalized with a drive-through, it should be penalized with five seconds, etc. If in the middle of the line you push someone towards the grass, or when you do different things, it should be penalized with a point because it is dangerous driving, “ Value the two -time world champion.
And then he left the dardo. “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 closed in his answer.
But when some opinions of one of those who made that decision are seen, he explains Johnnie Herbert, in the 2024 Australia GP, some things that are not written in the regulations are understood.
