The start of the Bahrain Grand Prix it was a bit bumpy for Fernando Alonso. The two-time world champion Formula 1who started fifth, lost position and fell to seventh in favor of George Russell and lewis hamilton.
In addition, he suffered a touch in turn 4 that could cost him the race, but fortunately nothing happened. Lance Stroll it rammed into it and its front wing touched its right rear wheelalthough luckily it did not cause a puncture.
Alonso kept the copla and asked Aston Martin for explanations: “They hit me in turn 4, check.”
“I understand. We have seen it and we are working on it. For now we see everything fine,” his engineer replied by radio.
“Already but they can’t do that…”, Alonso replied, to which the team, who knew it had been his teammate, kept throwing balls out: “Yes, understood, we’re looking at it.”
Half an hour later, with the race well advanced and in the midst of a fight with the Mercedes and the FerrariFernando asked again.
“Have you investigated the incident?”he pointed out on the radio. “They’ve investigated it, but they will not penalize”they answered him before telling him the reality.
“Well, just so you know what happened at the start, in turn 4, Lance was trying to pass George and when you were trying to lasso Hamilton, Lance couldn’t stop in time”they explained, qualifying that “there was no damage to any car, so everything is fine.”
“Okay, I thought it was George”settled Alonso, that after the race analyzed the incident with ‘Checo’ Pérez.
🗣️ “Have you investigated the incident?”
🗣️ “When you were trying to make the bow with Hamilton, Lance couldn’t stop in time”
An unprecedented conversation between Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin after the touch with Stroll that we see in ‘Código F1’ 💥 pic.twitter.com/kH2f2VUyB5
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