Shocking image of Alonso: in tears?

This is one of the photos of the Abu Dhabi F1 GP. It speaks for itself the frustration that Fernando Alonso felt this season at the wheel of a Alpine which let him down many times due to reliability issues. The Asturian only asked for one thing to close his stage with Alpine in his last race with the team of his life (former Renault) in F1 before going to Aston Martin: Finish the race and cross the finish line to honor his mechanic and everyone who worked with him. But he couldn’t do it. He couldn’t because his car, once again, suffered its eleventh breakdown of the yeara leak out with the engine joining a long list of problems with his car that cost him many points throughout the season. For this reason, when the camera focused on the helmet of the Asturian at the moment of reaching the pits and leaving, some drops were seen under his eyes. Maybe it’s sweat. Maybe tears. What is clear is sadness on his face. I’m not angry. Yes frustration and incompetence. “This is the summary of the year,” Alonso said at the end and added his sixth abandonment of the season. Your nightmare is over.

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Fernando Alonso he is a pilot who gives his all, who literally stakes his whole life on finding his best performance. Nothing annoys him more than seeing the team he belongs to lack the same ambition and accumulate mistakes. Hence the frustration of a Fernando who is leaving Alpine because he sees in Aston Martin a project with greater ambitions in the short and medium term, also looking for a car that does not suffer as many breakdowns as his Alpine during the season this. Hence his tears of frustration and impotence. The team welcomed him before the race with applause at his box doors. He wants to return the award by finishing the race. But it ended in tears, in another abandonment.

The positive for him is that he can confidently say that this will be his last Alpine DNF. His next race will be in 2023 with Aston Martin. Time to change focus. In two days, this Tuesday, Alonso will drive a green car this year for the first time in a Pirelli test. It’s time to think about new challenges.