“Poor” visibility makes missing F1 grid slot easy to do

In Bahrain’s season opening race, Alpine driver Ocon was penalised for incorrectly positioning his car in his grid slot.

The same thing happened to Aston Martin’s Alonso in Saudi Arabia, as the Spaniard was given a five-second time penalty for starting too far to the left of his box. However, Alonso still finished on the podium behind winner Sergio Perez and his Red Bull team-mate Verstappen after a penalty for serving his initial penalty incorrectly was…