Alpine is noticing Alonso effect. Or, rather, the effect to run out of Alonso. Fernando’s goodbye has been accompanied by more than poor results from a team that last year was fourth team, and at times third, of a World Cup in which, this year, it is not that are just standing out.
Because the Frenchmen barely add 14 points after five races. Because in two of them they have remained at zero. Because it is costing them, and not exactly little, to score with both cars and stand out in qualifying. That’s why he warned Laurent Rossi, because what happened in Baku did not like it.
And to know if the first ‘victim’ is going to be charged. Could be Otmar Szafnauer, that he did not hesitate to answer his own boss after the Miami GP. Now the Romanian is at risk.
Instead, someone who was in the paddock not long ago sounds. That he was dressed in red, settling the destinations of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz race after race. yes it sounds Mattia Binotto.
This is how Formula.uno reports, which also tells that the one who was boss of Ferrari he would have turned down Alpine’s first offer.
Of course, for the moment they are still negotiating, and it could well be that it was he the new Alpine strongman in Formula 1.
Only Fernando Alonso, with the Aston Martin, score more than 5 times more points than Alpine, although they have some optimism regarding the evolution in Imola.
However, things are not looking good for a team that has passed of wanting to fight with those above, or from being the great alternative to them, just adding 14 points after five races and being sixth in the World Championship, a long way from fourth.
