lap 37 of Bahrain Grand Prix. After an erratic and bumpy exit, Fernando Alonso begins to improve in pace, the low degradation of his Aston Martin allows you to get closer to the head and gives ‘hunt’ to Lewis Hamilton.
The two-time world champion Formula 1experienced like almost no one else, begins to ‘play’ with what was his partner in McLaren in 2007.
Change of line here, feint there, it approaches the curve, traction is better… and when the seven-time champion least expected it, in the most difficult curve of the Sakhir circuit, Alonso executes a perfect ‘hachazo’.
In the end, after abandoning charles leclercFerdinand too caught up and overtook Carlos Sainz to get on the podium in his first race with Aston Martin.
Well, at the end of the GP, in statements collected by ‘RacingNews365.com’, lewis hamilton He recognized the superiority of the green team despite being the client team of Mercedes.
In addition, he highlighted the great level of Alonso and how he suffered in his flesh the skill of ‘Magic’: “It was fun for a moment, but I was in a different league performance-wise because he went a long way away.”
“I really enjoyed the fight we had and I knew he was going to get over me by the way he caught me“Added the Briton, who knew that sooner or later he would give in to his ex-partner.
At the same time, Hamilton described the evolution of Aston Martin as “incredible”, although he left his ‘dart’ stating that “half a car” is from Mercedes (Red Bull assures that the other media is theirs).
“Congratulations to FernandoHe did a great job and it’s really amazing to see him. The entire Aston Martin team has done an amazing job,” he added.
“Half of his car is ours… They build the car in our wind tunnel, they do its aerodynamics in our wind tunnel…”, he settled.
While Hamilton highlights Alonso’s performance, from Mercedes put the example of Fernando to Lewis so that the hunger to win is recovered and the idea of retiring is dissipated. Of course, from the team they are not in a hurry to renew a new contract either. Why will it be?
