Alex Albon is adamant that Pierre Gasly didn’t deserve to be given a penalty for hitting Fernando Alonso at the start of the Turkish GP.

The Frenchman secured a strong result at Istanbul Park, crossing the line in P6 to score a crucial eight points for AlphaTauri, and things could have been even better.

He finished just over two seconds behind the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and would have surely beaten the Mercedes man if not for a five-second time penalty he had to serve in the pits.

Such a penalty was awarded to him for a Turn 1 incident in which he hit Fernando Alonso, causing the Alpine driver to spin and drop to the back of the field.