Many people say that luck doesn’t exist, it’s all about hard work, effort, dedication and talent. But in a sport where an accident by a rival can ruin your strategy, give them wings and completely change your career, luck gives you and takes points away from you. The same applies to reliability issues, sometimes crashing into his one of the team cars leaving the other car unattended. Fernando Alonso It has always been clear to him, he reiterated, that luck is usually compensated throughout the year. Affected by problems, he scored ten points in a row in Italy and Monza before having to leave due to an engine failure. After

First engine trouble in Bahrain

Alonso started ninth in Bahrain, but after the appointment Alpine discovered problems with his engine. Fernando underscored the degradation he had suffered and fought to score some points which he eventually reached. “I started to stop on lap 11, so the fight in the first stint was a guillotine,” he said of his incomprehensible battle with team-mate Ocon. Those who attempted two stops benefited from the final ‘safety’.

Abandoned due to another propellant failure

Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Grand Prix started with a new combustion engine due to power unit sealing issues. He finished it off with another setback of the engine in a race that he abandoned when he was sixth in a race where he could have contested for fifth place with Russell, but due to another inexplicable battle, the position fell. had already lost earlier against Ocon that the Alpine team had not made it in time. The Saudi engine could not be recovered.

Australia missed a golden opportunity

Before its rival’s upgrades, the Alpine was the 3rd fastest car and was flying in Melbourne. As he was battling for the front row, his engine failed midway through the ‘qualifying’ lap. He was therefore forced to start from his 10th place with a different strategy. He came out with stiff rubber, but the ‘safety’ benefited his rivals. “Our prediction was somewhere between sixth and seventh, but the safety car came out and everyone regrouped. Finally, a high degree of media degradation came to blame for him. “I think it’s just bad luck. In Jeddah he retired sixth and today he could easily have finished seventh,” he said.
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“But well, don’t think too much, think about the next one. I’ve done three and I have 20 left, so I think I’ll be lucky one out of 20.” What he didn’t know, however, was that bad luck would continue to accumulate.

In Imola, Mick’s ‘touch’ slammed him

Fernando finished outside the points for the third consecutive week at Imola. He couldn’t even fight then. Mick Schumacher grazed one of his on the wheels of Alonso’s car, but it was enough to break his pontoon. he had to leave.
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,war “Once again, I think we were pretty unlucky due to factors beyond our control. But it wasn’t even a hard hit and it destroyed our whole car,” he said after the race.

“The truth is, these things look like something out of a movie, but hey. They’re all happening to us at the beginning of this season, so we have to think about what’s next.” I guess. “There are still 19 races to go. I think last year after Imola we only scored one point. The season started a bit negative but after a very good and very strong year we will repeat it. I hope we can,” Alonso pointed out. out.

Miami scoreless after sanctions angered him

He was ninth, but a penalty deprived him of points. He skipped Turn 14. He returned some time later but was sanctioned by Micro who skipped the curve after he set a record in the sector without allowing the team to show proof of it. “I didn’t turn the corner so I put the time back on that lap…but obviously as soon as I skipped that corner a little sector came up in purple and I put it back later but they told me I made the decision without asking us ‘for some kind of proof,’ Fernando said later at the Big Prize.

A very painful “misunderstanding” at home

Forget the Barcelona ratings. He was 17th due to a “misunderstanding” with an engineer. He believed he would not have enough time to initiate the turn and gain a foothold. He started his final Q1 attempt right next to Norris. “There was traffic in the pitlane from everyone and at the start of the lap we were a bit close to the time limit for the session to end. I thought I had a second to go before I could cross the finish line. Still, I had about 20 seconds left. And I started just behind Lando, trying to get into the lap. The guy from Oviedo. clarified.

In the race, he took advantage of his poor starting position to replace the engine and serve a penalty for starting last.

Another engine failure and the ‘safety car’

He started second in Canada and had the pace to finish third. Like everyone else, he used a virtual “safety” to try and stop him, but it ended when he tried to enter. penalties were incurred because they had to be exposed to He went from being a podium contender to a 7th place contender. And when he did so, a subsequent penalty relegated him to ninth.
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“At the finish line the ‘virtual safety car’ came out and just as I was about to enter the pits the ‘virtual’ ended. As usual luck wasn’t on my side and again my car. I had a problem with my engine and it really hurts,” Fernando commented on DAZN F1. A problem with the engine power system started on lap 20, shutting off the KERS at the end of the straight’n day of the year.

Austria: 3 issues once a day

Your car did not start before the “sprint”

The Spaniard arrived in Austria motivated by a great performance at Silverstone and a step forward for his car with the new package presented in England. He thought he had a car to fight in ‘qualifying’ for a top 5 or top 6, but ground damage in ‘Q3’ prevented him from doing so. But the worst came on Saturday. In the sprint race, where I was confident of moving up the order due to the car’s good pace, the car wouldn’t start and I couldn’t get off to a good start.

“That was another issue with my car, but I’m not sure if I think the reliability will be good, or at least Esteban Ocon’s car will always work,” he said.
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“This year, I feel that I’m probably at the best driving level because of my experience. Probably at the level of 2012, I got about 20 points. It’s unbelievable. I might have lost 70 points. No. It was a very rare season because you count all retirements due to bad luck or reliability,” he added.
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And in racing, more problems. Alonso started last and came back with good pace and extended his stint with good tire management. He made a final stop to attack on new tyres, 6th or he chose 7th, but the team didn’t fit the wheels well and had to turn slowly and stop again. did. He was 10th, but he could have been 6th. Or better without the rest of the setbacks.

Belgium: Hamilton touch at the start

Fernando Alonso got off to a great start at the Belgian Grand Prix, passing Perez for second place, but Hamilton stuck to Oviedo’s ambitions and tried to pass him at the entrance to Les Combes. spanish car.
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The Asturian native lost his chance to dream of something big, but in any case his Alpine pace wouldn’t have meant a podium finish if something hadn’t happened in front of him. He continued to fight in the damaged car, but continued to run at a great pace. A strategy of stopping early in the stint and suffering tire deterioration at the end lost places to Leclerc and was due to finish sixth, but a mistake by Charles in the pits dropped him to fifth. I couldn’t do anything more with that car.

Italy: engine trouble

Fernando Alonso fell short of his goal of scoring many points at the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix. He had scored points in his 10th consecutive Grand Prix and was hoping this would be his 11th race, but when he was fighting for 7th at Monza, Alpine had a problem and he had to pit. I was forced to park my car and finish the race.
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Many took advantage of the Italian GP to change the engine and penalized him for being able to overtake him at Monza, but Alpine decided not to change the engine to Spanish.

Singapore: Two consecutive engine troubles

Alpine said it was able to save the Italian engine and decided not to change it. In the race, propellant fails again, When he was sixth, he left the Asturian again with no option to add another handful of points. He dropped out in two consecutive races. Fernando Alonso had a poor start and from 5th he was demoted to 7th. He overtook Gasly on his first lap for his sixth position and was defending very well against an attack from Verstappen who was unable to pass him. But in the end his engine worked well enough and Alonso ran out of points again.