The Spaniard was locked in a good combat with the Ferraris for third place within the closing phases of the Shanghai dash occasion, as he battled quickly degrading tyres.
However because the pair swapped positions backwards and forwards, they clashed at Flip 9 two laps from dwelling in an incident that earned Alonso a puncture – which pressured him into the pits for contemporary tyres earlier than he finally retired.
The stewards summoned each drivers forward of qualifying to debate the matter, and decided that Alonso had been at fault as he had the chance to keep away from a collision.
Though Alonso retired, the stewards mentioned it was customary follow so as to add 10-seconds to his elapsed time – an anomaly within the laws that it has urged the FIA to have a look at.
An announcement issued by the stewards mentioned: “As per the rules on driving requirements, which was agreed with the groups, an infringement of this nature required {that a} baseline penalty of 10 seconds was to be added to the time of a automobile that induced a collision.
“Article 54.3 of the Sporting Laws states if the ten second penalty is imposed after the tip of a dash session, then 10 seconds can be added to the elapsed time of the driving force involved. We accordingly added 10 seconds to the elapsed time of Automobile 14.
“As an apart to the FIA, we observe that the language within the laws as to when a automobile has retired and the resultant penalties on penalties which may be imposed or served, particularly when that automobile is in any other case labeled, is considerably unclear and we’d advocate that the FIA considers making the mandatory amendments to carry larger readability to this difficulty.”
Talking to Spanish channel DAZN after the dash, Alonso reckoned that Sainz had not left him as a lot room of their battle as he had supplied his compatriot earlier across the lap.
“Flip 7, I feel we have been evenly matched, then in Flip 8 I attempted to go to the skin,” mentioned Alonso. “However he opened the road to not go away me room, so in Flip 9 I did the identical factor he did in Flip 8.
“I attempted to go to the within to not go away him room on the road, however in Flip 8 I opened up so we did not contact, and in Flip 9 he did not open up. So we touched.”
Alonso’s three penalty factors means he has now a complete of six factors for the earlier 12 months interval.
Further reporting by Juanjo Saez