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Alonso says stewards were 'having a beer'

– Fernando Alonso says that the Italian Grand Prix stewards "must have been having a Heineken" with what he felt was a lenient penalty for Jolyon Palmer.Alonso, battling in the midfield, repeatedly complained over the team radio after Palmer cut Monza's second chicane (the Variante della Roggia) to move ahead.He slammed the five-second penalty Palmer as "a joke" and described it as "karma" when the Renault driver was told to retire due to an unspecified technical problem.As he spoke to various broadcasters in the press pen after the race, Alonso suggested that the stewards must have been drinking beer, given their decision."I think it was not up to...
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