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Alonso: Drivers should lose position for causing red flag

Fernando Alonso said drivers who crash and cause a red flag in qualifying should lose their position in the session and start last. Alonso finished ninth in a messy qualifying session for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, which had four separate red flag stoppages caused by crashes for Lance Stroll, Antonio Giovinazzi, Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda. Two weeks ago, Charles Leclerc kept pole position despite crashing at the end of qualifying, which ended the session before anyone else could challenge his lap time. That raised questions of whether F1 should adopt something similar to IndyCar's rule, which sees drivers docked their two fastest times if they crash and cause a red flag. With F1's...
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