How fed up Fernando Alonso must be, knowing how competitive it is, of not being able to cross even for the checkered flag with his car. With an Alpine that, again, has failed again. That, with him at the wheel, he has once again had one, another, reliability problem. Yes, in Mexico it happened again, and the time it seemed so far away with Honda and McLaren it seems like they were yesterday.
Because those years of abandonment, in 2015 and 2017, are having a third installment with Alpine. There are five times that the Asturian, two-time Formula 1 champion with Renault, has been had to get out of the car because of a mistake when, again, he was comfortably in the points zone.
With zero doubts about his level, which he showed again in a spectacular start by gaining two positions and leaving Lando Norris behind him, and which he also made clear when he kept a Bottas with DRS behind him when the Alfa Romeo seemed to have more pace, the Alpine said another day. What, if anything, I was going to give Fernando the car he deserves.
Unable to get eighth
Or, at least, a car that can serve to reach the end. with him, in a first radio that shared the broadcast, Saying that whatever the tires were, the car was perfect, the moment came when everything changed.
On lap 58 the engine began to say that it did not want to continue running at full power. She couldn’t get eighth. On straight lines, a turtle. When he tried to put the Alpine on full throttle, goodbye. The noise from his power unit was, downright, horrendous.
He already saw it coming when he began to see that his times were two seconds slower. That he couldn’t get anything back. That, again for something that does not depend on him, he was going to run out of points. Ocon, Bottas… and goodbye.
“Is incredible…”
On the radio, in a show of tremendous weariness due to the failures and because he is the one who always has to suffer them in the Alpine, he made it clear to his team.
“What a season, what a season… It’s amazing,” he said a couple of laps before he had to stop the car.
Then he was tremendously angry, waving his left arm in a gesture that makes it clear how upset he can be for what is happening to him this year. In 2023, to Aston Martin… Will you experience the same problems with a Mercedes engine?
