The paradigm shifts of the two Spanish riders in 2022 have been two breaking points that could prove decisive for years to come
The 2022 season started with a lot of optimism about the options of Carlos Sainz and Fernando Alonso. In 2021, the Madrid man was confirmed as the first Ferrari driver and the Asturian returned to the podium, showing that he was 100% despite being over 40 years old. There was nothing to indicate that they would end this campaign any worse.
Sainz has seen himself outperformed throughout the year, with some notable exceptions, by his teammate Charles Leclerc. The Monegasque has been affected by the team’s incomprehensible decisions and, although he was the candidate of the Italian squad until the end, in fact he was far from what he started at the beginning. While the numbers have clearly been worse for Sainz than for Leclerc, the Madrid man has taken a step forward in terms of his position within the team. In 2021 he learned; in 2022 he led.
His performance at the British GP, when he took his first pole position and his first win, and that unforgettable ‘Stop Inventing’ where he directly contradicted his team’s poor strategy, are all testaments to his character. In the races where those on the wall have messed up the schedule, it has been most affected by Leclerc, who obeyed first and protested later. The resignation (forced resignation) of Mattia Binotto has brought Fréderic Vasseur, who intends to turn things around.
If in Sainz’s case it was a step forward in spite of everything (he won for the first time and took three pole positions), in Alonso’s it was a step behind. to take the door. The year 2022 was the culmination of the failure of ‘The Plan’, that strategy with no more than good intentions that was blown up by those responsible at Alpine.
With Esteban Ocon more obsessed with winning over his teammate than with the well-being of the team, Otmar Szafnauer, who torpedoed Alonso’s relationship with the rest of Alpine, and Laurent Rossi more concerned with saving his neck than with the well-being of the team , the Gala squad has seen its two-time champion flee to Aston Martin for what will likely be his last dance in F1. Along the way, they also showed very poor decision making as they watched McLaren raise Oscar Piastri, a youth player who will arrive next season with the band of a great star of the future.
Source: La Verdad
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