Fernando Alonso Fernando Alonso has been demoted to ninth place at the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix after receiving a five-second penalty for some overly zealous late-race defending. Alonso had done a stellar job to qualify his Alpine on the front row but a mixture of poor Virtual Safety Car timing and an engine problem conspired against him come race day. The two-time champion eventually crossed the line seventh, only for that position to worsen courtesy of a post-race penalty. Alonso drew the ire of the stewards for weaving on the run out of the Turn 10 hairpin on the penultimate lap as he desperately tried to keep the Alfa Romeos of Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu behind. Bottas and...
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