Fernando Alonso gave an exhibition with a hole in his nose in Brazil: this is how broken his Aston Martin was from the first lap

What he achieved Fernando Alonso with a Aston Martin at Interlagos this Sunday, in the Brazilian F1 GP, It is already brilliant in itself for having achieved it with a car that had been one of the worst in dry conditions in free practice, with the engine with the least power on the grid, an engine with many problems throughout the year. But it is even more so when the damage that Fernando Alonso had to his car was confirmed.

After the race, on several profiles on the social network ‘X’ such as ‘@naches98’, the image of how Fernando’s car had been left due to the incident he suffered at the start of the race was spread. In it, you can see how destroyed the nose and nose of his car were, damage with which he competed from the first lap due to an unfortunate contact with Bearman that made him lose many positions.

The man from Oviedo started 8th and went for Bearman at the start, in the fight for 6th position in very delicate conditions, with wet asphalt and using intermediate tires. There, the Haas driver suffered a whiplash, he opened up and Fernando could not avoid it due to how close he was riding to his rival. The result, a touch and a slight off-track that cost Alonso to drop to 14th place.

A hole and a cracked nose that did not prevent its exhibition

In the image you can clearly see the huge hole it had Fernando Alonso on the left side of the nose, completely cracked. And also, on the front of the noseyou can see a cracked air opening that was completely deformed.

Still, Fernando taught in such complex conditions, with little grip on the trackrolling at a great pace and managing the intermediate wheels very well, which would soon make things difficult for everyone due to their wear and tear on an increasingly wet track.

This is how he came to catch up with some Ferraris completely sunk with those tires, at which point Alonso left one of the images of the day when overtaking Hamilton on the outside. And then, he hunted down Leclerc and put pressure on him even though Fernando was also driving with the front tires already open and degraded.

And then, With dry tires on a wet track, he was able to battle with Albon despite his clear lack of power on the straight to force his mistake. He became stronger with the good performance of his car in curves, which allowed him to get closer after seeing how Alex was moving away on the straights.. Williams responded, but Fernando tied him outside-in in a curve to recover that place. And then, He used his performance in curves to get as far away from Pierre Gasly, who was pushing him with a car 20 km/h faster on the straight.

When the track was very dry, the usual performance of his car and engine took over and he had nothing to do. But when it rained again, he pushed again with a great pace, even putting pressure on the champion Kimi Antonelli.

It was incredible that he could have done it with an Aston Martin with so much lack of power in its engine and that had not performed well this weekend. But even more so that he managed to do it with the car so destroyed in the nose and nose.

Mike Krack, Aston Martin track manager, already highlighted in Austin Fernando’s ability to extract great potential from the car despite suffering damage. “It has a special ability to compensate for the limitations of a damaged car. It was impressive”he said after the great pace shown by the man from Oviedo with many lost aerodynamic points in Austin. And in Brazil, he repeated the feat again.