Alonso’s anger and hitting the steering wheel in the middle of the race: “What he means is that ‘the day we have a good car, if you do this to me, we will lose races’. And things like that cannot happen. This is what makes him such a good driver”
Fernando Alonso starred in an image in the F1 Singapore GP that went viral and that speaks for itself about the resilience and hunger of the Asturian pilot. The man from Oviedo was driving a car with engine problems, with poor synchronization of the delivery of electrical energy with the curves of the circuit, and on top of that, with an uncompetitive car in which he had to start from the back, with no points options. Many would have thrown in the towel.
Instead, to Fernando Alonso He was even seen angry for losing a few seconds, despite not being fighting for any position. He wanted to continue pushing with everything, and it hurt him to lose free time due to a reading error by his engineers. It happened when Verstappen was going to lap him. They showed him a blue flag, he moved away and lost time there. But then, right after, Verstappen came into the pits.
He began to bang on the steering wheel because he knew that everything he had gained, scratching tenth by tenth in each lap with his car, pushing himself to the maximum, he had just lost in an action that could be avoided. That’s Fernando. He doesn’t want to give away even a second despite being in a race with no points options, at the back.
Alonso’s radio at that moment
“We’re gaining a damn tenth a lap and then we’re losing two seconds,” Alonso said over the radio, angry that the team could have avoided that loss of time.
“I need 20 laps to recover what I lost in this lap. So I’m not going to force it. The engine is broken in octave. What is happening?” commented the Asturian, who after the race explained all the problems his engine was suffering, things that had not appeared in previous appointments.
We’re gaining a damn tenth a lap and then we lose two seconds
Juncadella’s analysis: “Things like that cannot happen”
A few days later, someone who knows him very well, such as driver Dani Juncadella, spoke about that action on Mundo Deportivo’s ‘El Gran Circo’ podcast. For Dani, this action demonstrates Fernando’s hunger, but above all, the Asturian’s vision for the future: he wants all the procedures to be perfect so that, when Aston Martin can give him a competitive car, things like this do not fail.
“Basically, the anger is with the engineer. This is what happens at these levels. The same thing happened to me in Austin. What he says is like: ‘How are you not able to see what is going to happen in that turn? Tell me and I won’t let it pass, and I’ll close two or three more curves.'” commented
The same thing happened to me in Austin. What he says is like: ‘How are you not able to see what is going to happen in that turn? Tell me and I won’t let it pass, and I’ll close two or three more curves.’
“It happened to me in Austin, I was chasing several cars that were slower than me, but I couldn’t pass them. So I saved gas to stop two laps later. I told the team: ‘I’m saving to pass them at the stop, so make sure the stop is good.’ teammate in front of me. And I was fired up. ‘How can they not notice?’ he said.
“These things that happen to Fernando… are like ‘the day we have a good car, if you do this to me, we will lose races.’ This is what makes him such a good pilot. These are things that are not seen on television. It’s like Verstappen and his engineer, who doesn’t miss anything. “These are things that cannot happen at that level.”concluded about it in a program in which he spoke about the next 6 Hours from Barcelona and he got ‘wet’ when referring to Verstappen, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Antonelli and when reviewing all the current F1 news.
