168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell desperately called for a red flag intervention over team radio after his scary crash at the F1 Australian Grand Prix.

The Mercedes driver was chasing down 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin in a battle for sixth place in the closing stages of the Melbourne race when he suffered a huge shunt on the last ♛lap.

Russell lost control at Turn 6 and slammed into the outside barrier after a trip through the gౠravel, before his car skated back onto the track and ca𓄧me to a rest on its side.

Worried he was now in the direct firing line of cars approaching from behind, Russell begged for a redꦰ flag to be deployed over team radio.

"Red flag, red flag, red flag," Russell screamed. "I'm in the middle of the♑ track. Red flag, red flag! Red, red, rꦫed, red, red. I'm in the middle. Red! F***ing hell.”

Race control instead opted for a Virtual Safety Car to en🧜able the field to slowly complete the final lap of a dramatic race.

Rℱussell was checked over by the FIA medical team but was unhurt in the accident.

Alonso was punished by th♑e FIA stewards with a 20-second time penalty.

He was cited for "potentially dangerous" driving.

• Fernando Alonso punished for “potentially dangerous” last-lap George Russell move

Speaking to Sky after the race, Russell was⛎ reluctant to accuse Alonso of brake-testing h🙈im.

"My take is that I have gone off, and that is on ♛me, but I was half a second behind Fernando 100m before the c♔orner and then suddenly he came towards me extremely quick and I was right in his gearbox," Russell said.

"I don't know if he has got a proble꧋m or not. We are off to see the stewards so that is a bit bizarre in a circumstance like this. I've got nothing more to say right now, I need to see everything, I am disappointed to end the race like that.”

Alonso claimed to be nursing a problem with h🍸is energy deployment in the final stages of the race.