Fernando Alonso has been reinstated to 3rd place on the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix to cap a farcical couple of hours which adopted the rostrum ceremony.

Alonso lifted the third place trophy after ending behind the 2 Purple Bulls, however shortly after celebrating on the rostrum he was given a 10-second penalty which relegated him behind Mercedes’ George Russell.

The FIA had deemed Aston Martin had not correctly carried out a five-second penalty at Alonso’s pit cease, mid-way by way of the race, which he acquired after not lining up in his beginning grid slot accurately.

The FIA’s verdict mentioned the rear jack had touched the automobile earlier than Alonso had accomplished 5 seconds stationary.

After his unique penalty was handed out, Alonso criticised the race stewards.

“At present just isn’t good for the followers,” the Spaniard mentioned.

“When you may have 35 laps to use the penalty and also you wait till after the rostrum, there’s something fallacious within the system.”

After Aston Martin appealed, that penalty was then reversed shortly after 1 a.m., transferring Alonso again into third – the one hundredth podium end of his F1 profession and Aston Martin’s second in a row.

The stewards verdict on the reversal mentioned: “Having reviewed the brand new proof, we concluded that there was no clear settlement, as was urged to the Stewards beforehand, that might be relied upon to find out that events had agreed {that a} jack touching a automobile would quantity to engaged on the automobile.

“Within the circumstances, we thought-about that our unique choice to impose a penalty on Automotive 14 wanted to be reversed and we did so accordingly.”

An FIA assertion mentioned: “The request to the Stewards for evaluate of the preliminary choice (Doc 51) was made within the final lap of the race. The next choice of the stewards to listen to and grant the Proper of Evaluate by the Competitor was the results of new proof concerning the definition of ‘engaged on the automobile’, for which there have been conflicting precedents, and this has been uncovered by this particular circumstance.

“This matter will due to this fact be addressed on the subsequent Sporting Advisory Committee happening on Thursday, 23 March, and a clarification might be issued forward of the 2023 FIA Formulation 1 Australian Grand Prix. This open method to the evaluate and enchancment of its processes is a part of the FIA’s ongoing mission to manage the game in a good and clear method.”