Three races remain at present Formula 1 World Championship. Three tests to score. So that Fernando Alonso not only achieve Alpine’s goal of staying ahead of McLaren in the championship but also for him, on a personal level, do not fall before Esteban Ocon. So that, as usual, he defeats his teammate. The classification of Mexico is one more step in its objective.
Because only Lewis Hamilton, with whom he tied on points in 2007, and Jenson Button in 2015 have been able to stay ahead of him in the World Championship. Now, in this 2022 and largely due to a bad start due to reliability issues, the Asturian is seven units below Ocon… but it seems that, for performance and leadership, in Alpine the number 1 is Fernando.
In Mexico, and despite the fact that it seemed that Ocon was the most comfortable on the asphalt, Esteban saw again how the Spaniard, how the two-time Formula 1 champion knocked him out. With an equality between the two in Q1 and Q2, it was at the end when Alonso uncovered the jar of essences.
And in an attempt, seventh
He rolled alone, with a single attempt that was the only one i had to set a time and to know in what position he would start in the race. Thus, while everyone was already in their garages after their first time, Alonso left for a track where it was difficult to be comfortable getting ahead of Ocon.
To improve his time compared to Q2 and sign a more than competitive time that, in fact, served him to be seventh in the first instance.
Aston Martin, goodbye in Q1
It will come in handy for Aston Martin to play Alonso, as both cars fell in Q1 along with the two Williams and Mick Schumacher’s Haas.
He continues to take steps in Alpine and pressuring, and not exactly a little, a Pierre Gasly who will be the one to take over from the French brand. Y as Ocon does not take a step forward…
