Fernando Alonso leaves Qatar with an unexpected haul of points. The Asturian did very well in qualifying by being 8th in a car that was not meant for it and the race, but lost four positions due to a problem with his car’s energy delivery on the first restart of the race after ‘Safety Vehicle’, He excelled through his management, his resistance and his ability to take advantage of the mistakes of his rivals to finish 7th, also thanks to a brilliant strategy from the team when the second safety car appeared.
Seeing Russell slower, not catching Alonso on hard rubber with a better car after his first stopthe team chose to go in and go hard to comply with the regulations and use a second, different rubber compound, and On the next lap, he stopped again to put on the medium tire and thus have a better tire for the rest of the event. At that stop He overtook Magnussen at the exit of the pit lane with a good move and finished 7th, a great reward for the team after a difficult start to the race.
“I’m happy because I think we had a good weekend with a good time trial and also a good race. We fight every lap. We had some difficulties, it wouldn’t be any other way, but like everyone else, and we took advantage of the opportunities they gave us: some penalties, punctures, the problem that Checo had, who had to retire, and in that mess we scored some good points”the Spaniard argued with ‘DAZN’.
“Today’s race was more interesting than the sprint race. We had a few ‘safety cars’, pits, penalties at the end, so they were these types of races where we had to be there, hanging around of points to try to catch the maximum possible like 7th today, and I’m happy with today’s race and I hope we can also finish on a good note in Abu Dhabi.”
His problem in the straight after the first relaunch
“We changed the speed a little bit. We had to keep looking, that in the first laps or in the starts we had some problems with the top speed this whole time and we couldn’t find it.“, and the truth is that we lost three (there were four) positions in that first start, which was very expensive, because then it was very difficult to overtake here, and if you stay in that position you stay here,” he Said about the problem he had at top speed on the first restart, which relegated him from 8th to 12th place with a good pass on the outside, and then, he finished in 7th thanks to his cunning. and skills. of Aston Martin in a crazy finish to the race.
“So, without the ‘Safety Car’ and no problems at the end, It would have hurt if we finished 10th or 11th because of that restart, but eventually everything fell into place. “We were lucky to win those positions and I’m happy for the team.”
“Aerodynamic problem? No, from the power unit, including the brakes. We have some differences on what the car thinks what it’s doing at that moment, and when we get to the start, the car sometimes thinks it’s still behind the ‘Safety Car’, it doesn’t give you full power, and we made a little change, we thought it was resolved “But now it happened again.”argued about the aforementioned problem.
His trick: he set his personal fastest lap at the end
“You adjust the energy a little bit when you have two or a lap left, you use more battery because when you pass the checkered flag you don’t need more, so that fast lap at the end comes a little bit because of the energy . And they always you have to be less than 5 seconds ahead in case someone goes over the track limits or there’s something that can go over 5 seconds from behind the car in case you get penalized, so you always try to be as fast as possible t can even flag paintings”.
Source: La Verdad
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