The Istanbul stewards explain why Pierre Gasly was handed a time penalty for his first corner clash with Fernando Alonso. Heading into Turn 1 left-hander at the start of Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix, Sergio Perez was on the inside, with Pierre Gasly to his right and Fernando Alonso on the outside. As they jostled for position, the AlphaTauri clipped the Alpine sending it into a spin and thereby dropping Alonso from 5th to 16th. 'I was sandwiched,' Gasly immediately told his team. Usually, in the mad scramble for position at the start of a race, particularly in such conditions, such a clash would be viewed as a 'racing incident', but in this case the stewards felt Gasly was 'predominantly'...
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