There are wizards who don’t need a wand. That they don’t need to say their tricks out loud. There are those, like Fernando Alonso, they just need a steering wheel and that intelligence that so characterizes him. What makes you so special? They get everyone, both their own and others, to be hallucinated. In Canada, again, he has done it again.
It has done. Yes. She has repeated it. Yes. It is no longer even something that causes surprise. Because she does it so many times. Because he has done it practically in every World Cup race. In every test he has performed with Aston Martin. With a car that yes, that works. What is a top car? Which is a masterpiece of engineering. that finally allows Let’s see the best Alonso.
It has always been there, but you couldn’t see it. Not because of him, but because sometimes by H and sometimes by A there was no way. There was no way to see him upstairs. to see him fighting for poles By podiums. For victories. To see him even finish races. But all that has changed.
The new generations already know Alonso
He himself has said it, in a phrase for that generation that has missed its exhibitions with Renault. McLaren’s. Ferrari’s. Those who did not give importance to the miracles he performed with the Honda engine.A phrase that goes to them. And for them and for the rest there are races like those of Canada.
Or like all the others, but in this one something has changed. The one that already has changed It is not a minute that separates him from Red Bull. It’s not half a minute anymore either. It is, or has been, nine seconds. They have been with fuel problems. They thought of Mercedes for the rear brake, which made him manage more than he would have liked.
Who knows what it would have been without him, but with him, even, it has been magical. Even though lose the position with Hamilton at the exit took off the stickers with the same tire. Because, with hard, he copied the times of Max Verstappen. Because, as soon as he had to push, he did and left Lewis’ comeback attempt to nothing.
And with problems…
Yes, with that, with brake problems, nine seconds away. to nine. What seemed impossible in 2022 now it is not so much. What was incredible in Bahrain begins to cease to be. The 33, the much desired and longed for 33, is closer than ever.
And at Red Bull they know it. They know they have a rival they didn’t expect in the fight. In the fight for the races And yes, also for the World Cup. It may be reckless to talk about the three-time championship, but not about being, once again, runner-up in the world.
Pérez is within range, and it is no longer Red Bull who can with Alonso. It is only Verstappen who can with Alonso. One more second place. One more podium. And there are already six in eight races… and those that remain.
