Former F1 driver Romain Grosjean says the kerfuffle surrounding Fernando Alonso’s US GP penalty is a “joke”. Most insiders agree that the FIA, race stewards and race directors have not covered themselves with glory this season when it comes to decision making. Alonso said the hearing, heard on Thursday in Mexico, was a “very important day for our sport”. “The race director gave us wrong information,” Steiner alleged in Monaco. Formula 1 journalists have been forced to cover in detail the often farcical and complex minutiae of FIA decision-making, with former Haas driver Grosjean calling the latest episode involving Alonso “a joke”.

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