MONTREAL – Fernando Alonso’s irritating Canadian Grand Prix received worse after the race had completed when a penalty dropped him to ninth on Sunday night.

Alonso had began alongside Max Verstappen on the entrance row however pale over the course of the race and crossed the road in seventh, behind teammate Esteban Ocon.

Within the closing laps he was aggressively defending towards Valtteri Bottas and the stewards quickly investigated him for making too many modifications of route in a straight line, one thing thought of harmful at excessive pace.

The stewards discovered Alonso had accomplished this and later issued him a five-second penalty, which dropped him behind Bottas and the Finnish driver’s rookie teammate Guanyu Zhou.

The decision stated: “Between turns 10 and 12, on the penultimate lap of the race, automobile 14 made repeated modifications of route to defend towards automobile 77 who needed to carry at one level and briefly misplaced momentum.

“While noting the motive force’s level that at no stage was any level of automobile 77 alongside automobile 14, the Stewards take into account this to be a transparent breach of the above regulation. The Stewards subsequently impose a 5 seconds time penalty in step with that imposed for the same incident in Australia 2022.”

Alonso was already in a annoyed temper after the race.

Earlier than his battle with Bottas, he had been sad to listen to an Alpine radio message instructing him to not overtake Ocon within the closing levels.

Alonso replied that he had been “800 occasions” quicker than Ocon throughout the weekend.

The Spaniard, a two time world champion, stated he would have been battling Lewis Hamilton for the ultimate spot on the rostrum and was at pains to level out he had a automobile difficulty.

When requested the place the weekend received away from him, Alonso stated: “The engine, that was the one reply.

“We had an engine downside on lap 20 the place we lower the vitality very early on the straights, as quickly as we exited the corners. We tried to repair it nevertheless it did not work. Fortunately we did not retire the automobile and we nonetheless rating a number of factors, however till that time I feel we had been preventing for the rostrum at first of the race. I

“I felt robust in comparison with Hamilton, we simply did not have the tempo of Verstappen and Sainz. I used to be OK to manage Hamilton within the Mercedes.”