Alonso, punished after leading at the start of Jeddah!

Fernando Alonso have to go to ‘Czech’ Perez in the beginning if he wants to have any chance of making things difficult for the Mexican at Saudi Arabian GPalready know the Mexican, with a red bull superior, he can escape in the first meters if he maintains the first position and defends his first place with good speed and good power in the straight. The Asturian went to everyone and surprised perez with a massive exit. But seconds later, bad news came for the Spaniard. The Oviedo he was not placed on the starting grid and received a 5 second penalty for it.

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Fernando Alonso was placed a little to the left of his starting position, and the race management considered that this was enough to punish the Spaniard, whom Pérez would overtake on lap 4 of the race, putting Fernando back in second position ahead of Russell.

In this way, during his stop, the Asturian had to wait 5 seconds before his mechanic could touch his car, something that would cost him valuable time in the fight for victory and the podium. However, the Spaniard showed good pace to stay close to Pérez and take advantage of his pursuit and the DRS in the opening laps. He made it to lap 10.

Alonso had to push to distance himself from a Russell with worse pace to maintain second place despite that penalty. he needed a 5-second cushion, and by lap 10 he was 6″2 behind Russell. Once he got away from Pérez, his pace continued to be better than George’s, but at the same time, needed of Fernando to be careful with the tires with the aim of extending the first stint to the maximum and thus avoiding soft tyres.