High hopes Alonso had on this Saturday. On the Saturday of the sprint. On a day in which the first points of the weekend are already going to be distributed. It will be like that in the race, but for that race he had to qualify first. And there Fernando ‘clicked’ again. He repeated what he did on Friday. He once again scored a seventh that will make him need a great comeback to reach the podium in the Austrian GP.
Both in the long and short race. Because this afternoon, this qualifying Saturday, he’s going to have to row. You will have, for example, in front of a surprising Nico Hulkenberg with the Haas. With a Haas with medium tires. Yes, American cars go very well in Spielberg. They go, it seems, better than the Aston Martin.
At least in a short run, because we will have to see what happens when it is time to do more than 3 or 4 consecutive laps and How does the degradation of gums work? WhyAlonso’s fort, and the green car, it’s the race… but there it’s better to start in front than in the middle.
Between Leclerc and Stroll… Fernando
First, for the most logical. Because you have less to advance to score points. To score many points. And second, because at the start it is better not to have too much company around. In his case, there will be Leclerc and his partner Lance Stroll.
Yes, the Aston Martins are choking on this track. yes, possibly through the three DRS zones. Yes, the problems they have are well known, compared to the rest, in that sense. Not having a single set of new tires in a session as special as this doesn’t help either.
mercedes debacle
This time there were no track limits in his case. Everything inside the white lines. saving which eliminated Lewis Hamilton, for example, in Q1. Because Mercedes is not here to talk after what was seen in the morning in Austria. Because if the seven-time champion did not take a single lap in Q2, the same can be said of a Russell who starts 15th.
Out of position? Quite possibly, but they are two less adversaries, a priori, to Alonso and Sainz in search of as many points as possible at the home of Red Bull.
Sainz, for the podium
First and second are Verstappen and Pérez. Behind them, Norris, with Hulkenberg. Then, the Ferraris of Carlos and Charles Leclerc. And later, Fernando Alonso.
to know how it ends all after 24 laps at Spielberg…
