After being spun by Pierre Gasly on the opening lap, Alonso 🐻found himself we🔯ll down the order.

Running in 16th, Alonso tried to overtake Schumacher into Turn 4, but they made contact with the Spaniard’s fronꦡt-left wheꦺel hitting Schumacher’s right-rear.

The stewards handed Alonso a five-secon൲d penalty for the incident and two penalty points - the first points he’s picked up on his super licence since retur🦄ning to F1 at the start of the year.

Alonso was apologetic after🤡 the race and was seen hugging Schumacher in the media pen.

“We touched each other, unfortunately he h🌱ad the spin and I got the penalty,” Alonso said. “I take it of course, because I’m sorry to have the collision with him. That happened only because I was P14, I should not have been, but the luck seems to keep avoiding us this year big time, so I guess we are accommodating a lot for🎉 next year.”

Giving his view on the incident with Gasly on Lap 1, he said: “I don’t know, I didn’t see it on TV, so I think the first corner is always difficult in these conditions. We were nearly for the first time on these ▨wet tyres at the start all together, so these things can happen. Unfortunately it happened for us when we are top five, but I hope there are chaotic races next time when we are behind buꦜt not when we are at the front.”

After 𝓡qualifying fifth, Alonso was ‘frustrated’ and ‘disappointed’ he couldn’t make the most of his highest grid position since 2014.

“It’s frustrating that when we are not competitive we have a very boring race, and when we are competitive we have crazy weather and crazy things happening,” he added. “We’ve been historically this year a little b𓆉it less competitive on the intermediate tyres, and the whole race was intermediate, we didn’t even put the dry tyres on, so we need to improve our competitive level also on that compound. But it’s frustrating and disappointing.”