Alonso and his anger after the missed opportunity: “I can’t believe it”

Fernando Alonso he has saved the best for last. He made his first test in Q3 with a used tire, saving the new tire for the last attempt. The car ran better than expected and Fernando He confirmed this with the third best time in Q2. He had to finish the job of finding the 6th position he felt was possible, something that would have been a very good result after the problems the car suffered in qualifying at the previous events in Barcelona and Austria. But the Aston Martin team’s approach was a disaster.

Released by the green team Fernando Alonso too late on the track to make the final turn. Only the man from Oviedo was left Carlos Sainz and a Oscar Piastri that they both passed, knowing that they probably wouldn’t have time to make their turn because there was very little time left to reset the clock to zero. Fernando tried to pass Carlos on several occasions, but he couldn’t. And finally, Oscar Piastri surpassed him. So he started his lap in first gear, very slow, no speed and with tires outside the window of use. He had to abort his turn and see how Hülkenberg’s Haas took advantage of that situation, which also had a bad turn for Sainz, to finish 6th.

“I can’t believe it, guys, I can’t believe it,” the man from Oviedo exploded on the radio at the bad strategy of the team, which took too much risk in the search to make it as late as possible, in better track conditions.

And later, before the microphone of ‘DAZN’, now calmer, he regretted what happened but tried to take the positive side of things by highlighting the better performance of his car compared to the previous ones appointment resulting from “understand some problems” which weighed heavily on them in previous races.

“I couldn’t complete the lap in Q3. We had a new set and in the end we left the garage late. Lance hadn’t even turned and I started the turn in first gear and when 200 meters behind he was almost half a second slower than the previous lap. It’s a shame, but hey, “We were third in Q2 and at that time we were sixth or 7th and I think that’s our position now, 6th or 7th.”announced Fernando Alonso on ‘DAZN’.

“We were in the last garage (of the pit lane), that is the best position because you have the luxury of seeing them coming and you can leave before them. I don’t really know why we left,” added for ‘Diario AS’ and ‘MARCA’.

RACE OPTIONS: POINTS ARE POSSIBLE

“Usually we tend to drop a little bit on Sundays in terms of time trial, so… but well, we’re still in a position further away than we should be and por at least in front of Hülkenberg we should have tried, so let’s see if we can beat him in the race.. There are fast people behind us: Charles, Checo, who will definitely finish in front of us. So fighting for some points, hopefully in the same cars, will be the goal.”

CAR UPGRADE

“It’s a good sign that we understood some problems we had in the last two races. “We are back on a more competitive path, with both cars in Q3 and in the points tomorrow.”