With Alonso’s show on the track and in front of the buses with a crack at the FIA

Fernando Alonso he did it again. Aston Martin’s performance should put it in the closing points zone. “We should finish ninth,” he said before leaving. However, the Spaniard succeeded in Mercedes and Piastri within Japanese GP to finish in sixth place.

For the third race in a row, the Spaniard had to use his elbows to hold off the attacks of rivals with better performance cars. This time the victim is Oscar Piastri, which ended up being so desperate in the McLaren behind the Asturian that he made a mistake on the last lap causing him to lose a place in favor of Russell.

To highlight his performance, Fernando himself said that it was one of the best races of his life. “I feel so relieved, the truth is that it’s definitely hard to quantify or say if it’s best of breed… AndOr I’d say it’s the best of the breed, at least for a year, Since April or May of last year, I don’t think I have ever had a weekend as full as this one,” he said to DAZN.

“And certainly It’s among the five best races I’ve ever done. Nobody will remember Suzuka 2024. I finished sixth, I did fifth in the time trial, but for me I think we clearly have the fifth best car. Red Bull and Ferrari are in a different league and McLaren and Mercedes are ahead of us, so our natural positions are ninth and tenth in every trial and in every race.”

Stay with the FIA

Before studying race, Alonso used irony to send a message to the FIA after the controversial penalty he received for his defence, deemed by the stewards to be over the limit, against Russell at the last Australian GP. This time no type of investigation is needed.

“Do we confirm? I don’t know what to say, after Australia, they might disqualify me for the rest of the championship. It was clear that having Piastri behind me was a way to defend myself against Russell. “Maybe I took the battery a little bit in the last stretch to get Piastri close to a second,” he laughed.