“Finally I can leave Brazil with good memories”, Fernando Alonso pointed to ‘DAZN F1’ with a smile at the end of the Brazilian F1 GP. He’s coming off a rough day because of his fratricidal fight with his Alpine partner, Esteban Ocon, which ended with the Spaniard losing his front wing when he collided with the French in the middle of an overtaking attempt. That earned him a 5-second penalty and double annoyance for Alpine, as he faced a key race, the course’s penultimate race, with the need to defend fourth place in the Constructors’ World Championship against McLaren, and did he did it with his drivers behind the car. the gridiron because of their fight. A day later, Fernando Alonso gave a recital of rhythm, tire management and overtaking from a 17th start to a 5th finish and gave Alpine some glory-like points.
“There are 70 laps of the time trial. This morning we had an optimistic forecast of finishing seventh making three stops, so we went with three. But when a ‘Safety Car’ comes out, logically, those laps are deducted from the race and it favors the two-stop quite a bit. So we hesitated for a while whether to do two and in the end we did three. And in the last ‘Safety Car’, there was a lot of action, a lot of emotion and I was happy.”Ferdinand said.
The Asturian went with a completely changed approach. While the rest went to two stops (except Sainz due to an initial problem), the man from Oviedo bet on going to three stops. Luck smiled on him at the end, the man who turned his back on him many times on this course, to allow him to take advantage of a safety car to stop and be the only one in the Top-10 with a new tire on the track. The Spanish took advantage of this. He was 9th with 11 laps remaining and finished 5th after good overtaking of Bottas and Pérez. Before, they had something to do with it Esteban Ocon, one day after the controversy. But this time the team took action and reiterated clearly and succinctly to Esteban not to fight Fernando because he had new tires.
“Now we don’t collide”, he said between laughs, remembering what happened last Saturday in Interlagos. “We’ve kept our distance from the others so in that sense I’m happy. It’s been an attacking race. After Norris retired we have a bit more freedom to be more aggressive because we are no longer losing points to McLaren, so Sa finally, I will take a good memory of Brazil with me,” added.
Now, the man from Oviedo is looking forward to the last race of his time at Alpinebefore going for his new project with Aston Martin in 2023. “We came (to Abu Dhabi, the last race) with a 21-point lead, I think (with Alpine in 4th place against McLaren), so we have to hold on to fourth place and in Abu Dhabi , enjoy”finished
Source: La Verdad
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