Alonso’s swear word came after he was eliminated in Q2 with the eleventh fastest time. The Alpine driver missed a place in Q3 by just 0.012 seconds and blamed McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo for compromising him on the last corner of his lap.
Ricciardo, Esteban Ocon and Sebastian Vettel all escaped grid penalties after three separate investigations into alleged disability crimes in a chaotic end of the second quarter.
“Unfortunately we don’t have anyone to monitor it,” complained a frustrated Alonso after qualifying.
“[The] Race director is too soft. If you let us play with the outlaps, it’ll always be a mess. We need a referee to protect us, and right now we don’t have him.
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“Then the traffic itself, McLaren’s fault, the team or the driver, whatever. Even if there is a lot of traffic on the outlap, you will need to move if a fast car is coming. He didn’t move.
“In Austria Vettel got three places, so I expect at least three places or more. Let’s see where I start. I think I’ll start in ninth place in my opinion.
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“Our team is very keen to tell us when a faster car is coming. So I haven’t had a disability investigation all year, so you have to be sharp too.
“The people who are not sharp are examined. Usually they get the penalty, but that’s another matter, it’s very random. ”
Alonso believes Formula 1 rules are not being enforced as strictly as they were at his last race in the championship in 2018.
“Definitely a lot worse than 2018,” explained Alonso. “There are no rules. Not for the outlap, there are no minimum times to be respected, there are a lot of strange movements off the track on the first lap.
“I complain in the first third of the championship, then I changed my mindset, then I did the same, and now I have no more races to hinder anyone, it is not in my heart to hinder them.
“Nobody wants to be in the middle of a fast lap, because then you go to the commissioners and get a three-place penalty. I hope it happens today. ”
And the two-time world champion says that F1 needs a more black and white regulation on such offenses, using the example of a football analogy.
“The problem is that we should be more guided by the things that are right and wrong,” he added.
“It should be more black and white, what is a penalty and what is not a penalty. You have to be tough on some decisions.
“In football there is a red card if someone goes into a duel and there is a big penalty or whatever.
“Here they have trouble showing a yellow or red card. That’s why we keep repeating the same bad things over and over again. “
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