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Alonso berates FIA over Palmer penalty

Fernando Alonso has said the FIA must have been drinking beer after giving Jolyon Palmer a five-second penalty in their  early scrap for P12. The duo picked up where they left off from Spa, with Palmer opting out of the second chicane and not giving his place back to Alonso afterward. Alonso then bombarded team radio with a spate of angry messages and labelled Palmer's resulting penalty as 'karma', but was still not happy with the punishment dished out to the Brit. 'When we arrived at the chicane we were side-by-side, we braked late and I managed to take the chicane, but he didn't and he jumped it and stayed in front,' said Alonso. 'Usually that's something that's very clear in the...
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