Kevin Magnussen insists that there was nothing underhand in the four-way battle he enjoyed in the closing laps of the Belgian Grand Prix – even if the race stewards thought differently. Speaking before the announcement that he was to be penalised by the addition of 20 seconds to his elapsed race time – a punishment sufficient to drop him out of the points – the Dane enthused about the scrap with Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and McLaren team-mate Jenson Button, which initially saw him cross the line in sixth place overall. With fifth place on the line, the quartet left nothing on the track and, at one point, Magnussen appeared to make sure that Alonso would have to use more than...
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