Alonso and his final pillo actions left his opponent outside: “He thought it was a madness that Fernando had tried that”

Years have passed, and Fernando Alonso Follow to the maximum level. The results, far from the successes, were marked by a car that did not allow him to fight them. But because it was clear in 2023, when his pulse was not trembling in a podium car, if by 2026 Adrian Newey He gives him a winning car, no doubt to take advantage of it.

He showed his enormous speed at a multiple turn this year with perfect classification, taking risks and putting his vehicle above what team simulations have indicated in many appointments, as happened in the Japan, Isola, Monaco, Barcelona, ​​Canada and othersbe on Austria This weekend, the circuit in which his car did not give him good emotions.

In it Red bull ring. But that’s not all. As Emerson Fittipaldi told MD, Alonso was “a pure carrier” And it differs from him from the crowd. Reading the career and the ability to take a cut of any element and any circumstances, gives you to maximize your result.

Another example to add to your real carrier list is What happened to Austria with final laps to i -frame, when the study of his representation agency, Gabriel Borttoleto, pressed himalong with a Sauber to give up better and come with a higher rhythm for having a better tire.

Pillo class in defense

Alonso chose for a stopping strategy. Meanwhile, Bortoto went to two stops. Brazilian wears 17 younger laps tires than Alonso And his rhythm was so good that he allowed Fernando to cut a total of 10 seconds to just 11 turns. He had to stick to the oversense’s back wing in the absence of just 2 laps for the end. And the ‘Defense Show of Spanish began. When everything seemed to be gone and had to be restored to the 8th place, Alonso defended the 7th cunning place.

On the return of the penultimate, Bortoleto placed himself behind his spoiler on the main line and Everything seemed to indicate that Gabriel could easily miss him on curve 3. There, Asturian took all his pillars, as the wisest in the class, to try something that seemed impossible: maintaining a faster car.

Prior to curve 3, it was seen as Alonso Loosen and the borttoleto passed inside. He did this for the Bortoleto early before the Drs Detection Zone. There, with a counterattack maneuver already in mind, He opened his entrance to monitor more on curve 3 to make Gabriel’s ‘loop’ and speed up, with better traction.

Having a release on purpose before the DRS zone allowed to open the DRs even in front from his opponent to line to curve 4. Thus he can pay for the lack of speed of his vehicle and defend himself from the braking correction. Magnificent.

Final Lesson in intelligence and very dangerous

But the master class didn’t end there. Alonso became wide, covering inside the curve 5 to lower the blind before the final lap.

Again, it seems inevitable that BorTotole has passed her at the last turn, but then Norris arrives, released. BORTOTOto showed him the blue flag to leave Lando, the leader of the race, and who separated him from Alonso. Fernando had to do it, and he did it again with a high -high pilla. He did this before the point of discovering DRs to exit Lando and open the Drs after Norris to get speed.

And he still had to risk the blood of fríA, stick to English. Near Lando, hardly opening next to him. A touch with Norris could have ended McLaren’s victory and became a major disaster, a scandal and a big cloud of criticism for Fernando. But despite how tired his tires were, he did not hesitate to risk. And not only that, he did it in the millimeter, carrying out his plan on everything that was controlled: In subsequent braking, He approached Norris a lot, almost grabbed the leader of the career, covering the interior so that BORTOTOto did not happen to him.

“It’s as if Alonso is fighting for the World Cup.”

“Alonso did everything possible to stay in the back. It was as if I was fighting in the World Cup. He was so cute. I knew exactly how to put the car, get Drs, and I thought it was crazy that I tried to advance Norris, because if I played Norris who didn’t paint properly. But he made it perfect. Even with a bad tire, it remained a millimeter of Norris’s car without colliding. He deserves that position, without a doubt, “said a Bortoleto who could not receive a better class from his teacher. He taught him how he kept fighting the whole time all seemed to be gone. At the end of the race, without removing fatigue even a top of his mental reflexes. He showed him that the towel should not be thrown away. Unpaid lesson.