Fernando Alonso is a master of the races. There’s no more. It’s like having a driver, one of the best, and also a real strategist in the car. Because he has done it again. Because, in Azerbaijan, has done it again. It has been on a radio, in a fantastic Radio, in which the Asturian knew how to perfectly read what was happening with Lewis Hamilton’s tires.
And it was a good distance away because there was approximately 1.5 seconds between the two when Aston Martin contacted him by radio. They did it after talking with Lance Stroll. With his partner, a real one, who made it clear that they were playing the same game.
“Tell Fernando that I’m not going to attack him. We are playing the same game”, said the Canadian to his team. Who knows if Esteban Ocon, in the same situation and having Alonso almost within DRS shot, he would have said the same thing.
And Alonso responds…
To that the Spaniard responded, making it clear that what he was doing was completely calculated.
Because from there he understood what was happening with Lewis Hamilton. With Lewis Hamilton tires. With something that a posteriori proved to be completely true.
“Hamilton is close to having ‘graining’, he stated to Aston Martin in his message.
In two laps, Hamilton to the garage
And yes, it was very close. Just a few laps later the pace of Lewis Hamilton dropped considerably. He went from being close to Sainz to falling by three seconds, and suddenly Alonso was two tenths behind. Glued. With the DRS ready to pass him like a rocket on the straight.
It was not necessary. Hamilton warned that he had to go to the pits to change tires and that was what he did. Just before the ‘safety car’, falling from fifth to tenth place and having to overtake on a track like the one in Baku.
