Fire in Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin, but he goes to Q2

Fernando Alonso cfulfilled perfectly the great objective he had this Saturday in qualifying, by managing to put his Aston Martin in Q2, in the second phase of the session against the clock in the F1 United States GP 2026. He achieved it in a Q1 in which before returning to the track to make his final attempt, fire came out of the back of his car.

The Asturian driver knew that his rivals to be in Q2 were the haasafter having finished 16th in Free Practice 2 and Free Practice 3, with very similar times to the two drivers of the American team.

The man from Oviedo nailed it with his first round of tires, with a very good attempt that placed him in 12th place. But when cars with more performance in the middle zone than his Aston Martin nailed the lap, in the final part, that took Fernando to 16th place.

bearmanthe other Haas, had surpassed him by only 65 thousandths. was left Esteban Oconbut the Frenchman did not succeed, remaining 0.291 behind the Spaniard. Fernando did not need a great second attempt to pass. He achieved it with the first, since in his second lap he failed to improve. All of this, after a fire attempt at the exit of the pit lane that seemed to be a simple scare.