Next July 10 will be one year of the confrontation on track between Fernando Alonso and Yuki Tsunoda. An anger that occurred when, in full straight with DRSthe Japanese closed the Asturian ‘strangling him‘ against the grass causing the gesture of denial from Oviedo.
A race that surely does not bring back very good memories for Fernando, despite his great comeback. The current pilot of Aston Martin managed to finish within points after climb nine positionssince it came penultimate.
A comeback that was almost cut short by the dangerous maneuver of the pilot of AlphaTauri. In addition, overtaking on the Austrian track is not an easy task for anyone, so the risks that Alonso had to take were enormous.
In 2022, in addition, Alonso had to face a very difficult race. In addition to starting penultimate, the man from Oviedo had to stop twice in boxes in two straight laps after a tire error.
Fernando made his feelings quite clear to Yuki 😆#AustrianGP#F1pic.twitter.com/CF7oNoECD3
—Formula 1 (@F1) June 26, 2023
Tsunoda believes that this year will also be “somewhat difficult to overtake”
Yuki Tsunodathrough the official podcast of the Formula 1has made it clear that he has the feeling that there won’t be too many overtaking this coming Sunday. Therefore, the Japanese maintains his idea that qualifying will be vital.
“It’s hard to make predictions, but I think we need a good classification. In the race, I think it will be difficult to overtake on that circuit as wellso I don’t expect there to be many,” Tsunoda said.
