Sergio Perez expressed his opinion regarding Fernando Alonso’s penalty in Melbourne and shared that he thinks there is a lack of consistency when awarding penalties.
Alonso was trying to defend his position in the last laps of the Australian GP. In doing so, he tried to compromise George Russell’s exit out of turn 6 to keep him at bay, but in doing so, he caught the Britton off guard and that led to the latter crashing. The FIA later decided to hand the Spaniard a penalty after analyzing his car’s telemetry.
Perez doesn’t agree with the penalty given to Alonso, considering it “too much over the limit” and “unnecessary”. Then, he also added that the stewards “have been struggling a lot to keep the consistency with the penalties.”
“But my biggest fear is that we might see this incident again this weekend or next weekend and probably nothing will happen. That’s my biggest fear because we’ve been struggling a lot to keep the consistency within the penalties.
“For example, in Jeddah, there was a block of [Valtteri] Bottas in Q1 at 300 km/h with two cars – [Oliver] Bearman and [Alex] Albon. No penalty.
“I block [Nico] Hulkenberg, he lost half a tenth – he goes faster on the lap after, and I get three places.
“So I think the biggest talking point should be consistency. If incidents like this are going to be penalized, they have to be penalized every single weekend. Because as a driver, it hurts a lot when you work your ass off, and then you see this inconsistency.”