Alonso, abandoned due to another breakdown in his final Alpine race

It can’t be. He only asked to have a race without reliability failures to reach the goal between the points in his last race with Alpine. But this Sunday, the Abu Dhabi F1 GPThis is the best summary of what his era was like. Alonso tried, but his car failed him for the umpteenth time on this course. He did not finish his second stint with the team of his life as he would have liked due to a new reliability problem that forced him to go to the pits and retire on lap 28.

The man from Oviedo lives in the wrong race. He started tenth after Ocon (8th) and Vettel (9th). He warned before the race that Alpine had instructed him not to attack his teammate. And as a matter of principle, in honor in front of Sebastian, he reiterated that he would not attack the German on the day he said goodbye to Formula 1. Because of this, his start to the race was very calm, very different from what others. The Grand Prix is ​​in a different scenario. He did not attack and stayed at the tail of the small train consisting of Ocon and Vettel, with Esteban very low. It was lap 15, and Alonso warned his team on the radio: “At this rate let’s think of a plan B. They are too slow,” he said in reference to Ocon and Vettel. But the team prioritized Esteban’s position and stopped the Frenchman first.

Fernando Alonso was made to go on a different approach, possibly stopping. They extended his first stint and he lost positions with Tsunoda and Stroll. went from 9th place to 11th. He went to war with the Japanese. Both went over once and the Spaniard finally won that position. He was 10th, in the points, with the option of extending his hard tire to the maximum, perhaps trying to stop or looking for a final safety vehicle to give him wings to attack. But after eight laps on that compound, Alonso had to go to the pits and say goodbye to the Alpine in the worst possible way, with abandonment. A clear reflection of what this campaign has been like for him, a course full of reliability problems with his car that cost him countless points. The positive for him, this nightmare is over, it’s over. His new phase at Aston Martin now begins for 2023. On Tuesday he will ride in the green car at the Pirelli tests to start working with his new team. This will create a clean slate.