Several drivers were called in to see the stewards to interfere with competitors after slow running at the end of the second quarter trying to find a place for a flying lap as track conditions continued to improve.
Alpine driver Alonso was hindered by Daniel Ricciardo’s McLaren, one of the drivers examined.
Alonso was kicked out of Q2 due to the incident and the Spaniard reiterated his dissatisfaction with the fact that in situations like this the race management were not harsh enough with their penalties.
“Unfortunately we have no one to monitor it,” said Alonso after qualifying. “Race director is too soft and if you let us play on the out rounds and things like that it will always be a mess.
“We need a referee to protect us and we don’t have him right now, so that’s bad.”
He added, “The problem is that we should be a little more orientated towards the things that are right and wrong. It should be more in black and white what is a penalty and what is not a penalty.
“And you have to be tough on some decisions.
“In football there is a red card if someone makes a tackle and there is a small penalty or whatever and they have a hard time showing a yellow card or a red card, so we keep repeating the same bad things . “
“If you let us play the out rounds and the like, it’ll always be a mess.”
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Alonso is convinced that Ricciardo and other drivers will be punished for today’s traffic problems.
“The traffic itself is McLaren’s fault,” added Alonso. “The team or the driver or whatever, because even if there is a lot of traffic on the out lap, you have to move when a fast car comes and it hasn’t moved.
“I think Vettel had three places in Austria [penalty] So I’m counting on at least three places or more and let’s see where I start. I think I’ll start in ninth place in my opinion, but let’s see. “
The two-time F1 world champion, who qualified eleventh, said each team pulled out of the race right at the end of the sessions but believes he avoided any investigation as his Alpine squad warned him “sharply” to move faster to be approaching motorists.
“Everyone does that. We also do that in the out-round,” he said.
“Sometimes we can’t overtake and we’re too slow, slower than we want, but our team is very keen to tell us when a fast car is coming, so I haven’t had a disability investigation all year.
“You have to be sharp too and the people who aren’t sharp are examined and usually they get a penalty, but that’s another matter. It’s very random.”
Alonso was one of the noisiest drivers that year and often complained about the stewards’ decisions.
He assumes that nothing has changed for the better so far.
“Oh yeah, definitely a lot worse. Much worse than 2018,” he said. “There are no rules out there. Not for the out-round. There are no minimum times that you have to adhere to.
“There are a lot of weird movements on the first lap off the track. I complained in the first third of the championship. Then I changed my mind and I did the same and now there are no more races to get in the way, but there are is not in “hindering my heart.
“Nobody wants to be in the middle of a fast lap because then you go to the stewards and you usually get a three-place penalty. I think that will happen today.”
