“At the plate they will have other interests,” recriminated the Aston Martin pilot. In the background, he supposedly disagreed with Carlos Sainz in the sprint race this Saturday.
In the mixed zones of Formula 1 there is a maxim: ask the television in the pilot’s country. In the case of Fernando Alonso in the group in English, there is a free menu, but in the group in Spanish, only DAZN asks, which pays a million for the broadcasting rights in Spain. The interaction is usually friendly, Alonso is a personal friend of several members of the chain, but this Sunday in Bak was not the case. Strangely, the leader of Aston Martin was concise, dry and at the end of the brief interview he left a message for the DAZN narrator, Antonio Lobatowith whom he maintains a close relationship.
“How are you? Satisfied?” I asked. melissa jimenez, the DAZN journalist sent to all circuits. “I’m happy,” Alonso replied. And that’s it. Nothing about the feeling of him, nothing about the race: just two words.
“Slight advancement to Carlos [Sainz]Jimnez noted. “I’m happy,” Alonso repeated.
“What do you expect from the next weekend in Miami? What does the future hold?” Jimnez concluded, who normally, due to another unwritten law, has a maximum of three questions. “Let’s see what the future holds. But there on the plate they will have another opinion or they will have other interests. I’m happy,” Alonso concluded and, before leaving the mixed zone, he answered other channels like Sky Sports normally.
During the DAZN post-race program, Lobato himself offered context to the pilot’s words without wanting to give them excessive importance. “I know who this little message is for. We had a little discussion on Whatsapp about a story. Nothing special. These are Fernando’s usual things, that they throw this little pull at you like that as a joke from a distance, but hey nothing serious We have different ways of expressing an opinion on some issues,” assumed the narrator.
In the background of the discussion, it is supposed, the action between Alonso and Carlos Sainz in the Bak sprint race that forced the commentators to get wet about which of the two Spaniards was right. The two-time Formula 1 champion claimed a penalty for his compatriot for having closed him against the wall in turn 2 of the Azerbaijan circuit and Lobato, like the judges of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), considered that the action was not deserved punishment. As revealed by the journalist himself, who has been narrating Formula 1 races since 2004, the pilot later wrote to him on WhatsApp.
On Sky Sports, the analysis of Alonso’s career was extensive: “I think [Ferrari] was lucky. The tires degraded less than expected. They held up quite well and, in addition, at the end of the race there were some clouds and the temperature dropped”. , he pointed out before being satisfied with his fourth place in the race and the performance of his Aston Martin.
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