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Alonso drops to ninth after penalty

MONTREAL - Fernando Alonso's frustrating Canadian Grand Prix got worse after the race had finished when a penalty dropped him to ninth on Sunday evening. Alonso had started alongside Max Verstappen on the front row but faded over the course of the race and crossed the line in seventh, behind teammate Esteban Ocon. In the final laps he was aggressively defending against Valtteri Bottas and the stewards soon investigated him for making too many changes of direction in a straight line, something considered dangerous at high speed. The stewards found Alonso had done this and later issued him a five-second penalty, which dropped him behind Bottas and the Finnish driver's rookie teammate Guanyu...
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