Alonso’s viral radio that says it all

“What a stupid rule! How the hell could they put up a red flag earlier? said Fernando Alonso after Carlos Sainz caught him in the stalled start with two laps remaining invented by the FIA ​​so that, as happened in the famous 2021 Abu Dhabi GP, the Australian race will once again blow away all the spectators of three of the best leading the fight for the win: Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.

And quickly, the Spaniard showed two of the virtues that made him a special driver: his speed of thought and his ability to control everything at all times, knowing how to read the race even in the most complex points.

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Carlos Sainz caught up with him and while the other may be lamenting the possibility of losing the podium, he sent a clear order to his team to ask the FIA ​​​​that, with another red flag due to an accident between two Alpines, the race will continue again recovering those starting positions.

“Look, because a year ago, at Silverstone, the same thing happened and everything restarted, Look at it, fast! The car is fine, I can continue, but look, look”, he asked his radio team. He rightly recalled that in the last F1 British GP, when Zhou crashed in the first corner, that race was restarted with another standing start which kept the first starting positions because the first lap had not been completed. And so it was done.

Alonso, pure careerist

When you talk to the paddock engineers who worked with Fernando Alonso, there are many elements that stand out to the Asturian that no other rider has. A complete pilot. Some highlight his unique sensitivity to his analysis of a car’s behavior and his subsequent ‘feedback’ to engineers to improve it. Others, its management of tires and brakes. And, apart from his speed, his ability to have everything happening on the track in his head. In fact, in some races he surprised everyone by making sure he controlled what was happening by watching the giant screens when he was 300 km/h. Those things, together, make for a very fast driver in any situation.

“Fernando Alonso for me is a careerist. That is the word that defines him. When he starts a Grand Prix he is always first”, said Emerson Fittipaldi in MD a year ago. “He is a real winner,” says Mika Häkkinen. in this journal. Examples of how much pilots appreciate all the qualities Alonso gets in a pilot. The man from Oviedo showed it again with his quick and direct command to the team. He has everything under control.