Fernando Alonso he is back. His debut with Aston Martin did not disappoint and, a decade later, the Asturian opens the season again by rising to the podium in the Bahrain Grand Prixbut her journey to the third drawer was not a bed of roses.
After falling to seventh position at the start due to a touch from his partner Spear StrollFernando came back taking advantage of the abandonment of Charles Leclerc and exceeding at the Mercedes of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton follow in the wake of carlos sainz.
The two Spanish drivers fought a memorable duel for the podium during which Alonso cooked the overtaking over low heat. The Oviedo man has been behind Sainz for three laps, until lap 45 when he managed to pass him on the back straight by opening the DRS.
After completing the overtake, Alonso released the tension of the battle broadcast a sentence on the radio More than impactful that it went viral.
“Yeah, goodbye! once the battle is over, said the two-time world champion.
Later, he landed in the middle, opening a gap of more than nine seconds for the driver of Ferrari.
“I said we wouldn’t make podiums in 2023, but…”
At the end of the race, Alonso was moved, throwing himself into the arms of his mechanics as soon as he got out of the car, and the Asturian assures us that this podium was unexpected: “I said that we would not no podium in 2023but everything has been advanced,” he told ‘DAZN’.