Alonso ran wide through the gravel after making a mistake at Turn 2 on the 33rd lap of Sunday’s race at Qatar, before aggressively chopping in front of Leclerc’s Ferrari as he rejoinedꦗ the track. 

The Aston Martin driver was reprimanded by the stewards f✤or what they deemed to be an “unsafe” move. 

Vasseur was critical of Alonso after the race anᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd suggested the Spaniard would ha♎ve made a bigger deal out of the incident had things been the other way around.

“If it wa🌱s in theꦏ opposite I think that Fernando would have been more than vocal on the radio, that his life was ‘really on the edge’ and so and so,” Vasseur said. 

“I think it was far too much coming from nowhere and ꧋crossing the trac🌠k at 90 degrees, but it’s not my decision.”

But Leclerc, who ultimately finished 10 seconds ahead of Alonso in sixth, d𒁏ownplaye🐼d the incident. 

“It was on the limit, yes. B💮ut on the other hand, he was so far off that I don’t𓄧 think he saw me at any point,” he explained. 

“Then coming back, it’s not the best way ꦚto rejoin the track, but at the same time I don’t think he was aware that I was there.”

Alonso acknowledged his error, saying: “I lost the car,💧 iღt was my mistake. I was struggling a little bit with on-off grip in the car at the moment.

“So yeah it was my mistake, a costly mista🍸ke, maybe one or two places. So hopefully next time better.”