Fernando Alonso After a while he struggled to contain his anger. Alpine’s new single-player ‘youth’ challenge distorted what was an exhibit of the Asturians in his classification. Australian Grand Prix. His dissatisfaction at the end of the session at Albert Park was more than justified, until the incident occurred. Alonso spotted fighting for pole or at least with a ‘top 4’. But reliability failed again and he will start tenth on the grid tomorrow.
“We’re still investigating but it’s a hydraulic issue, I didn’t have the shifting or power steering. Everything exploded on that corner. And that’s a shame, I think I was a tenth better on pole and had two sets of tires., so we could fight for that pole. We were having the best weekend in many years,” complained Alonso in front of the DAZN microphones.
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“Another problem with my car, it’s pretty frustrating, let’s see if we can finish them. Fighting for pole position is something we’ve been waiting for for a long time and it’s coming for the first time. having problems again is a little frustrating. You want to have these problems when you’re eleven when you’re not fighting for something important,” he added.
But the positive part for Alonso is, Very comfortable in the car since Friday And aside from the technical glitches, it still feels very competitive. “The car was very fast all weekend and we were finally able to fight to be in the front row. That is, until the hydraulic problem came. It’s a bitter feeling, the result is disappointing, but in the end At the same time we have performed our best in recent years. We will continue to work hard,” warned Fernando.
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For tomorrow’s race (DAZN, 07:00), Alonso does not rule out that some changes need to be made to the A522 and will penalize the grid as a result.. “We also need to see if we need to change something in the car, if we have a penalty but I don’t care right now. I wanted to fight for pole today and podium tomorrow but if we do.” get a score now it will be fine. Yes, we couldn’t score either, because it’s all or nothing and all bad luck is holding us back”, Fernando decided with obvious bitterness.