Again. One more time. And there are already many. Too many, for a team that is and wants to finish in fourth position in the Constructors’ World Cup. And again with Fernando Alonso. Not with Ocon. with Alonzo. With the driver who leaves for Aston Martin in 2023. Again it was his car that failed. Once again it was he who suffered the increasingly common error in his car. Again, When I had safe points in Mexico, goodbye to everything
A goodbye that began to be noticed already on lap 56 when, suddenly, their times were two seconds slower. They were much worse than they should be. It was, directly, a turtle. One on the straights. And the reason was the total lack of power in his Alpine.
The direct absence of eighth gear. Because its engine gave everything but energy. Less speed. The noise, horrible. very strange Bad. Very bad. As bad as its first sector, the one with the long straight at Hermanos Rodríguez.
There, I was unable to do anything at all. With the most twisted sectors setting decent times, in the first it was impossible. As soon as the folded they gave a good account of the train that was being assembled, nobody had problems to surpass him on the track.
First Ocon and, after him, Daniel Ricciardo. In those, Bottas and Norris were already approaching. He, while, showing again his weariness over the radio to his team.
“It’s amazing. This is amazing… What a year,” commented in an audio that picked up the F1 broadcast.
As soon as he tried to put eighth everything was over. He had to stop the car. The Alpine, fuming. Again, the usual. “engine, engine”, he claimed.
Again, yes. One more time. Again, a reliability issue at Alpine. In Fernando Alonso’s Alpine. Another time when the points seemed clear, when he himself said that the car was running great regardless of the tyre, he failed to cross the checkered flag in an F1 Grand Prix. And already, with this, there are five in this 2022.
