Fernando Alonso He now has the biggest chance so far this year to take his long-awaited 33rd F1 victory. The man from Oviedo starts 2nd in the Monaco GP (3:00 pm/DAZN F1) after a good classification where he saw how Max Verstappen he got dressed Ayrton Senna to steal a pole of only 84 thousandths with the last magical sector. The Spaniard knows how difficult it is to overtake on this track, but he will try to take advantage of any mistakes or problems his rival may have to take his first Aston Martin victory, his first since his return to F1, something to mark a new and then in F1 by achieving a historic record.
Alonso has not won an F1 Grand Prix since May 12, 2013, in Barcelona. The record for the longest interval between victories by the same driver in F1 is held by Riccardo Patrese (6 years, 6 months and 28 days. In case of winning the race this Sunday, Fernando Alonso will break that record and raise it to 10 years and 16 days.
In qualifying, he held a similar record yesterday
In fact, on Saturday he came close to breaking another similar record, in this case, for the longest gap between two pole positions, which he currently holds. Kimi Raikkonen together 8 years, 11 months and 168 days (from the 2008 French GP to the 2017 Monaco GP). If Alonso had achieved pole position yesterday, he would have already lost it: 10 years, 10 months and 6 days. He hasn’t gotten it yet, but he has a lot of races left to do so.
Source: La Verdad
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