F1 regulations established a limit of 3 power units per season for each car, and since then, each additional unit installed in the car will mean a grid position penalty. And in the third race of the year, Fernando Alonso has already launched his third machine. The man from Oviedo, who came out this morning for the first two free training sessions of the 2022 Formula 1 Australian GP with his car, the blue car instead of the main pink one he drove in the first two races, is hoping that the machine problems Alpine they’re done That’s also what you expect Otmar Szafnauerboss of the French team, who in statements on the portal ‘motorsport.com’ confirmed that the recession suffered by Alpine de Alonso sa Saudi Arabia and those who had the first machine after the race Bahrain are irrelevant and these mistakes will never be repeated.
“In Bahrain, Fernando finished the race and, as a precaution, we had to bring the machine back to Viry to run it in the power bank. It’s good and it will come back, however, the one from Saudi Arabia, which is a new machine because We took the one from Sakhir to investigate, the water pump was damaged so it will not be used, “said Otmar.
It should be remembered that Alpine was the team that had to improve its engine the most compared to 2021, since last year it had the weakest engine on the grid. In addition, it added to it the freezing of engines from last March until the end of 2025, preventing teams from upgrading the power of their power units until that date, only to upgrade their engines for reasons. of reliability. under the permission of the FIA. Considering this, Alpine and the other group prioritized the search for the largest possible number of horses, something to be expected that at the beginning of the course there will be some setbacks in this regard. And so, with some disappointments also for Honda, Mercedes or Ferrari customers in the first appointments.
The machine of all, there is doubt in this beginning
The positive thing for Alpine is to see that it doesn’t have the worst engine so far, although it needs to resolve reliability and Alonso knows he will be punished soon when he mounts the fourth engine, and again when he installed more machines throughout the course. However, the question remains about the potential that all motorcyclists can still maintain, precisely because they still need to improve reliability.
Perhaps that was one of the problems explaining the low lead of Mercedes and its customers at the start of the course, although the star team insisted that his speed problem was more related to the high air resistance offered by his vehicle. . . So far, Mercedes has clarified that it will not bring anything magical to Australia that will solve its failures. Alonso and Ocon must battle again with the stars, Haas and Alfa Romeo to take the lead in the central zone and find Q3 of the classification the next morning.
Source: La Verdad
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