Alonso’s anger tripled

The F1 GP of Canada is cruel to Fernando Alonso. Again, his merits on the track were not rewarded by the final result he deserved, a trend that has been repeated many times this season due to the Oviedo man’s misfortune, with punctuation of reliability problems with his vehicle, mistakes in his team’s approach, the high wear and tear of his vehicle’s tires and of particular racing situations such as the appearance of the ‘Safety Car’.

On Sunday Fernando started second after a qualifying exhibition in the wet, and in a dry race he gave the bell by showing enough speed to achieve third place, rolling in a controlled manner to a podium position against Hamilton. But that race would end with Hamilton on the podium and Alonso, 9th. How can this be? A virtual ‘Safety Car’ will lead to injury to him, as well as the eleventh problem of this course with his machine. He crossed the 7th finish line, but a penalty for a defense with a few straight moves against Bottas relegated him to 9th place. He could have made the podium, but he was 9th. It was logical then that Alonso gave him some violent punches to the steering wheel as a sign of anger.

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Ferdinand was angry. If someone is angry with you, it is to give your best and things will fail due to external issues. Alpine knows this. He knows how much he pushes the team to bring improvements to the track. And his perfectionism. Nothing should fail. And if he gives it his all, so should his environment. In 2021, the Spaniard highlighted Alpine’s ability to fully execute the races as the key to overtaking a faster car like the AlphaTauri in the Constructors ’Championship. Execution of races, with good stops, good reliability and proper techniques, is more noticeable for him than points. This is something that is key to tip the balance in favor of the French team. But in 2022, things aren’t going the way I would like, and an example of this is what happened in Canada.

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A wall post you didn’t like

The Spaniard showed his first rage on the radio. He showed tremendous superiority then Stephen Ocon in all conditions in Canada. But the fact that the second ‘Safety Car Virtual’ ended before Alonso could even enter the pit lane means that Esteban Ocon was ahead of him. On lap 67, Alonso followed the Frenchman in the seventh, with Bottas stuck in the eighth and having to deal with a lack of power on straight roads due to engine failure. A command came that he did not like: “We stayed where we had this problem along.” Alpine’s wall tells him to stand up and not fight Ocon.

“Even with this problem straight, I’m 100% faster”exclaimed Fernando. “Ok,” his engineer replied. Alonso had to stay behind Ocon although he was not satisfied. But honestly, chasing Stephen would have helped him.because Fernando can lead straight by taking on Ocon’s DRS to defend himself against Bottas in his machine failure.

His response was the result of frustration at the moment, understandably, for being behind his teammate despite being faster than him throughout the weekend. Because all his bad luck in the second ‘Virtual Safety’. The race put Stephen there. Ocon did the right thing and took advantage of it. And at that time Alpine just needed to think about the team and keep those two places. Logical decision.

In fact, Otmar Szafnauer, head of Alpine, confirmed that Ocon helped Fernando: “Esteban has no problem, he’s pretty fast at the end. It just regressed to the way we had the DRS train. I think, without the DRS gear and the extra trimming, Fernando was in danger of being overtaken and Esteban helped him. ”

“We can’t change the order because then we’re really vulnerable. So it’s the right thing to do. Esteban didn’t insist on allowing Alonso to have DRS, he could have left but that’s not good for the team. “

The biggest annoyance: the failures in the reliability of your vehicle

But the biggest anger can be seen in the newspaper. The Asturian stressed his discomfort when he saw how his car failed againwhich makes it clear that his car is the only one repeatedly in trouble. “It’s kind of painful to have a reliability issue right now.”said. “The problem with the engine in my car is really painful”repeated up to two times in three responses to ‘DAZN F1’.

“Yes, obviously there was another reliability issue just in car 14 (his). So disappointing. I mean, here I am trying to be better than the sixth and seventh. I think this weekend we are better than the sixth and seventh. then, if we don’t finish on the podium it’s because we had a reliability problem with car 14 and we might be unlucky with the virtual safety car.but you can’t control luck. Reliability on car 14 should be a bit better. “ directed. He clarified that it only happened in his car and not in Ocon. Just ask for the same reliability in the parts that your partner enjoys.