Stefano Domenicali explains Fernando Alonso’s car damage in Italian GP – Formula 1 new
Ferrari team principal, Stefano Domenicali thinks Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing deserved the drive-through penalty for causing Fernando Alonso to go off the track in the 2012 Italian Grand Prix which damaged his car.
Vettel forced Alonso to go on the grass when he tried to overtake the German driver at Curva Grande of Autodromo di Monza in the preceding race. Later, the Red Bull’s driver faced drive-through penalty for his unfair driving.
Domenicali said that the incident was very serious as it could have ended Alonso’s race, therefore, he insisted that it was right to penalise Vettel for his unjust racing.
“When Alonso went off track as he was attacking Vettel that caused him some damage at the rear which unfortunately got worse with every lap, so we had to keep an eye on that,” Domenicali said. “You never know how much a car can put up with so the end of
the race was a real cliffhanger.”
Furthermore, he said that after the confrontation, the rear wing of the car was damaged and they also faced some mechanical issue.
“We had a problem with the car. In fact if you see the car there is very big damage on the rear - on the left rear - and we had also a problem with something broken from the mechanical point of view,” he added.
It will be important to note that the same kind of incident happened during the previous season in which the defending champion went off the track and the Spaniard was ahead of him in the Bahrain GP. However, Alonso didn’t face any drive-through penalty
and when the team boss of Ferrari was asked about this difference of treatment, he simply replied that the rules are different in this season and compared to the previous one.
The current season has brought many surprises for the spectators and has been very unpredictable so far. In addition, the changes in the rules and regulations in this year by FIA have created issues for many contenders.
Let’s see how all the contenders perform in the Singapore GP.
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