Fernando Alonso’s anger: “He forgot that he had to turn. At the bottom of the grid the quality of the drivers is very low now and it has been seen with Alex. In the car I was missing half of the flat bottom”

Fernando Alonso He has had few chances to score points this year, and that will be the case in the last five remaining races. And you should take advantage of those few days in which your car is competitive in the middle zone and the power deficit of the Honda engine does not hamper you so much to add. The United States GP was one of those few races due to the good long-run pace of his Aston Martin and its good tire degradation. But instead of ending with a smile and between the points, he ended up angry because of a touch by Alex Albon in the first lap that he still didn’t understand. He wrecked his car and ruined his race.

“The car is damaged. Fucking idiots”said Alonso in a radio communication with his team, aware that this would complicate his day. Despite this, he showed great pace in the first stint, better than his rivals in the middle zone with damage to the spoiler and the entire side of the car, including a destroyed side of the floor that took away many points of aerodynamic load.

And before television and the written press, Fernando Alonso showed his discomfort at what happened, an accident for which Albon was not sanctioned.

“My point of view? That Albon forgot that turn 11 was there and he had to turn left. But we have to improve and start the race higher, because I think that at the back of the grid the quality of the drivers is very low at the moment,” said Fernando Alonso before the official television of F1. The same idea that he repeated before the written press, as reported by several international media.

“I think that when you start from behind, there is always that risk. The level of the drivers at the bottom of the grid is very low, as we have seen today with Alex,” he repeated.

“The car was destroyed”

“I think we lost half a second or even more (with the damage caused by the incident). The car is destroyed. I saw it in parc ferme: half of the flat bottom is missing. I don’t know how we managed to stay in the race and stay semi-competitive.. I imagine that, yes If the car had been intact, we could have scored points today. It would have been a very real possibility.because we were twelfth with half a car,” he said.

And then, he pointed towards Williams, the team with which they are fighting for 9th place in the Constructors’ World Championship, with 5 points more than Aston Martin.

“Today we could have scored points and perhaps gotten closer to Williams in the Constructors’ Championship, but they made sure that we had no chance,” said the man from Oviedo ironically.

“I think it was our best race in terms of competitiveness of the entire year, by far. The car was very strong in the race, with good wheel management. We had some major damage on lap 1 with an incident with Albon and despite that the car was still competitive. I think today we had a ninth or tenth place on its own merits. It was our best race of the year, but it was ruined in that incident at turn 11,” he commented on championship television.

Alex Albon’s version

“It’s always fun to compete against Fernando,” said Alex Albon after the race in statements to the written press, as published by ‘The New York Times’. “He’s a tough driver, but he always races cleanly. Maybe he thought I had gone a little overboard, I don’t know. I’m sure I’ll find out soon. But I think I had a pretty good time,” commented the Thai Williams driver.

“I was on the inside of Fernando and I think we ran out of space then. I tried to get out of the way and get on the curb, but I couldn’t do it well. So I imagine he must have suffered damage. I know that I have suffered damage to my car by having to complete the race with the broken wing,” he concluded.