Fernando Alonso continued his misfortune Australian GP from formula 1. If, after the race in Arabia, where the Alpine left him, fifteen laps from the end were ‘shot’, the Asturian regretted it at this point. just adding 2 points was bad baggageAfter finishing last in Albert Park, the locker didn’t move, and Fernando admitted that “there are no words” to describe how he felt. Even more so, considering that his car was among the fastest in Friday’s free practice, missing pole position due to a new hydraulic fault while driving in the best of times in the third quarter. In addition, career strategy started to yield results and Alonso was close to the top until the departure of the second safety vehicle.
The two-time champion decided to start with a set of hard tires and He didn’t stop with the first safety car. He continued until lap 41, where he ran fourth. From there he dropped to 14th place and when he returned to the track he found a car train led by Gasly. In the end, he not only failed to return, but fell to the 17th and last place.
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“Honestly, no words,” said Fernando before the DAZN F1 microphones. “It’s hard to accept how everything went wrong. We’re only in three races and the championship is so long, so I hope luck returns on the next dates”.
“I think we’ll have more chances soon, but we’ve now lost another sixth position in Bahrain and another sixth or seventh position in Saudi Arabia and without issue against yesterday’s time,” he said. it was so easy with the podium Max Verstappen out”Alonso summed it up.
“I think we would have been faster than Mercedes and George Russell is on the podium, so we missed a big opportunity.” The car went well, we started with the hard one, the opposite strategy, so it took a while for us to hold the position and when the middle started to drop then I started to think that sixth or seventh row was possible, In Strategy the idea was to go hard and medium, I tried it, stopped on lap 22 or 24 , however a group of security agents regrouped and we had to say goodbye to strategy.”has detailed.
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After stopping, Fernando could do nothing to recover: “It was difficult because when you’re one on one you can get through with DRS, but when there are four cars they all unlock. DRS was impossible. We can’t look back and we have one more chance at Imola,” he said.