In recent years, Formula 1 drivers and fans have agreed on a criticism of those responsible for enforcing the rules: the inconsistency in the moment of applying them.
Very similar actions have been judged on numerous occasions in different ways, and it was expected that this year, with the departure of Masi (become a scapegoat) and the arrival of Eduardo Freitas and Niels Wittich , things would be different.
However, and although the changes were felt from the beginning, some seams from the past have also been seen, such as this Sunday at the Miami Grand Prix. There, Alonso was penalized five seconds for colliding with Gasly at Turn 1 midway through the race. The Asturian before the media admitted that it had been his fault, and that he deserved that punishment for being “too optimistic”.
Although there may be debate about whether Alonso with Pierre Gasly was a career incident or deserved punishment, the penalty fell and only caused the #14 to lose position with his teammate Esteban Ocon. However, the story did not end there.
For a very similar action and in the same corner at the end of the race, Mick Schumacher, who took Sebastian Vettel ahead, was not considered guilty. After studying that accident, the stewards considered that both drivers were responsible and the blow for which the Aston Martin driver had to leave was left without consequences.
Comparing both incidents, at the same point of the circuit, there will be those who find enough differences so that they had to be punished with different severity, but the seriousness came later.
On the penultimate lap, and while Fernando Alonso tried to open a gap with the drivers behind so as not to lose positions when the penalty was applied, the Asturian skipped turn 14 of the complicated chicane of the Miami circuit, and the matter quickly passed at the hands of commissioners.
An hour and a half later, the FIA ruled that the two-time champion had taken a “lasting advantage by leaving the track”, they erased his time for that lap and imposed another five-second penalty that sent him from 9th to 11th place, leaving him at zero .
Again, that penalty could be compared with the one that Mick Schumacher did not take, but there is still more: in addition to the five seconds, Alonso was given a penalty point on his license, that is, a track exit was considered a foul. serious enough to go on to punish in the super license.
And there the debate is already impossible: the FIA penalized much more harshly cutting a curve at a point where we had seen such maneuvers all weekend due to the difficulty of that chicane, than literally ramming another driver and taking him out of the race.
What message is sent with these two decisions?
And of course, another day we will analyze whether it is more important to ban jewelry and make it mandatory to wear fire-retardant underwear than to place TecPro barriers at a point on the circuit where it had already been shown that there could be serious accidents (here to read more).
The inconsistency is still present.
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