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Fernando Alonso lucky to escape punishment after ‘playing' and ‘meddling'

Former Red Bull driver Mark Webber suggests that Alpine’s Fernando Alonso was rather fortunate to escape punishment for holding up Williams’ Alex Albon in qualifying in Baku The drivers had to hurry out for their final runs of Q1 on Saturday after Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll caused a red flag by crashing with two-and-a-half minutes to go of the session, so they were all bunched up as they began their laps. Albon spent almost the entirety of his lap stuck behind Alonso, denying the Thai-Briton the chance to improve his lap time. READ: Magnussen suggests FIA should have penalised Bottas The 40-year-old eventually got out of the way by taking to the escape road at Turn 15, but the...
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