GP Mexico F1 2022: Alonso: “What a season-mate, what a season”

Desperate, bored, angry. This is how Fernando Alonso came out of the Alps after scoring another great race, in points, ahead of Ocon, until he was left without an eighth gear, which cost him overtaking. And losing the engine to a power outage 6 laps from the end due to a cylinder failure was giving him a hard time for 20 laps, “again car 14, car 14 always, very disappointed,” he said.

It only had five cylinders for 20 turns, which makes it half ridiculous. And it broke, which was for the better. again what happens to 14

Fernando Alonso

“What a season, what a season, amazing” Fernando said on Alpine Radio, which has been filled with classics this season due to the massive collection of Spanish breakdowns, which already includes five withdrawals for this reason during 2022.

“I was comfortable, as in the States, 30 seconds ahead of my rival and McLaren, one of my best races, and I lost a cylinder, He only had 5 laps for 20 laps, making himself half silly. and broke, which was the best. I wanted to stop and they told me to continue if the safety car held points, but again 14. Only two races left.”

Blows in the air, anger nods and his head on tires speak of Fernando’s ruthless battle against fate this year. At least it got affectionate applause from the audience.

two euro coins

Fernando Alonso’s set of faults is massive this year, And some singular like oil seal gasket caused failure in Q3 when I was fighting for poleAnd the. He started late doomed to his career when he was faster than Mercedes in Melbourne by €2.

The next cool thing is touchdown with Mick Schumacher who opened a hole in the Alps. “These are things that sound like something out of a movie and they happen to all of us,” he said.

The next two were fireworks. Ninth place in Miami was removed by the FIA ​​for derailing and returning the wrong position, without even accepting the team’s complaint. Fernando grabbed the whip in Spain. “My punishment was incompetence and lack of professionalism on the part of the hosts,” he said at the time. Then in the “quality” came the lack of understanding with the engineer, who had to leave 17.

in Canada A second on the net was removed from the top hat after a magical lap in the water that left staff in awe, but on Sunday the malfunctions returned “a problem with the engine power system that cut the KERS system off at the end of the strait and lost about 8 tenths or one second in a lap.” Once again, a misunderstanding with the wall prevented him from taking advantage of the safety car’s final exit. “Unbelievable, unbelievable,” he said on the radio.

Silverstone, balsam, was quiet and finished fifth. In Austria on Saturday He was looking for the first two rows when the car battery on the grid ran out, which was unheard of. In the race, well seen, it finally started due to the thousandth change of the engine, capable of shooting the fifth, and the other “nuts” came to win everything successful. As if you weren’t angry, when you’re in the box next door, the 31 has barely had a breakdown and everything goes from strength to strength…

end of line

Fernando lost several races without problems to be able to return and after stabilizing 9 races and scoring points, although not without problems, Arrived back to Monza and the water pressure problem A new Singapore KO’s engine.

Celebrating the 350 grand prix race in Fernando became a nightmare in Singapore Shortly before reaching the middle of the race, when the Spaniard was forced to retire due to a new fault with his Renault power unit, the same one that later cost teammate Esteban Ocon his retirement.

The Spaniard, who scored an advantage over his partner, confirmed that he lost from behind the points area in the classification.

“I am very upset because there have been good performances from me all weekend in this race and once again the mechanical failure has been added. For 14 years (he says, referring to the fact that his car has a lot more in it than an Ocon). And yes, so both cars but one of them was late and not as serious as my pips case, that this year changes everything. If you put 60 extra points in the rating and reduce them to the rest, because they are points that others stop adding, My championship will look much better even compared to Mercedes.