Nico Rosberg has accused Fernando Alonso of making a dangerous move into the Barcelona pit lane during qualifying.
Alonso pulled out of his garage during the session without being aware that the Mercedes was coming, forcing the Rosberg to take avoiding action.
“That was dangerous, because with the people standing on the pit wall, if some parts start flying and things like that…,” said Rosberg. “It would have been an accident, I nearly had to drive into the wall, so they must be penalised for that.”
Alonso played down the incident: “Hopefully they will take into consideration that there was no accident, no touch, no performance gain.”
Meanwhile Rosberg was hugely disappointed to finish the session in eighth, two places behind team mate Michael Schumacher.
“I really struggled the whole weekend, really difficult to drive, especially with the understeer in the middle of the corner everywhere. I don’t like understeer, that’s for sure, and I think Michael can probably handle it better and so it’s just been difficult.
“In the end I’m one tenth off him, which is acceptable I guess, assuming that he’s done a pretty good job this weekend. But still it’s not where I wanted to be, I wanted to attack Red Bull this weekend, and I’m just nowhere.”
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