Fernando Alonso smiles with the green. Smile, in the Aston Martin outfit. He does it because he knows what’s out there. Because he knows something. Because, after what he has seen and after so much accumulated experience, he knows that it is the place where he has to be. what is there where more chances you have to win. That he is in a team that shares his same desire: to win the Formula 1 World Championship.
Which, piece by piece, is assembling everything that is needed to make it. They have the money, with which they are going to invest significantly in facilities to be at the forefront of the engine. It has to names, with Dan Fallows and Eric Blandin, former Red Bull and ex Mercedes. It has the two-time champion, with Fernando Alonso. And it has the engine.
It has the power unit. yes same as He brought the Asturian headlong in 2022 at the Alpine. The Renault engine broke practically by looking at it and when one least expected it, what caused Alonso to get angryand rightly so, for all the abandonments suffered.
If it hadn’t been for the engine…
for all the lost points when he was available to add a good number of them. Because, if it hadn’t been for the engine, once again Fernando would have been ahead of his teammate, Esteban Ocon.
There has even come a time in which, directly, ‘happened’. In which already, for what was left, he preferred to think about what was to come. And what is to come is a world in which to walk calmly and barefoot on freshly cut grass.
Eight Mercedes drivers, one DNF per power unit
Why the Mercedes engine is a real rock. Let’s put the numbers. At Aston Martin, between Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll they added six retirements. Between the two, the same as Alonso. Fernando was also knocked out three times by the engine. And in two for issues that depended on his power unit.
while so only Seb was left out by his Mercedes engine. It was in Italy. The rest, for reasons beyond our control. Stroll, zero for your engine.
Let’s analyze the rest of the drivers with a Mercedes engine. In the star team, Hamilton added two retirements for one from Russell. None went for their power unit.
As for McLaren, Norris dropped out twice for Daniel Ricciardo’s three. The Australian had an oil leak in a race.
Williams remains. Five dropouts for Albon, five for Latifi. The Thai was left out on one occasion due to a water leak.
Alonso, same dropouts as all Aston Martin
In short, Fernando Alonso had five engine problems in 2022. If we add the other DNF, only the entire Williams team of those with Mercedes engines equal or exceed their DNFs last year.
So yes, the Mercedes engine is reliable. Reliable and powerful. An engine that Alonso you can get as much juice as possible one that he could not fully squeeze with that of Renault.
