Russell responded to Alonso’s monumental trolling

The third place trophy of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Sunday continues to bring the tail to the glory of its two protagonists, Fernando Alonso and George Russell, who through their respective social networks and their teams are killing it .

Fernando Alonso was the one who climbed with all his suit sponsors, nothing important for Aston Martin, in the third drawer of the podium with Checo Pérez and Max Verstappen, but a possible 10″ penalty hung over him because the one of the green The mechanics grabbed the back of the Aston Martin with a cat before changing a tire when they waited five seconds without touching the car due to the penalty Fernando was pulling from the start.

Finally the penalty fell so they almost secretly handed the trophy to George Russell in fourth place who automatically became third and with the trophy he posted on his networks along with the picture with the tweet “Fernando and Aston Martin deserved the podium today , but I’m very happy to collect our first trophy of the season and very proud of the hard work the team is doing. We’ll keep pushing.”

But the FIA ​​reconsidered after Aston Martin’s appeal for a loophole in the regulations stating that you can’t work on the car and its slight handling doesn’t mean it will and third place was returned to Fernando in night And not short or lazy, he made a menacing close-up very ‘Father’, with the word “Hello”, with emoticons, the trophy back.

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And this Wednesday came Russell’s response asking Fernando for his address and shortly after Mercedes released a video simulating that the trophy had arrived at the Aston Martin facilities at Silverstone and they put it in a showcase, a viral genius responding to another viral genius.