Fernando Alonso left everyone in awe for their performance in the Bahrain Grand Prix. He came back from seventh place, a position where he had fallen at the start, on the podium behind the Red Bull of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.
The overcoming of the Asturian Lewis Hamilton in turn 10, an almost impossible place, was the image of the weekend.
It’s not that Alonso came back, it’s that he never left. Has his 41 years He is still as fit as in the years he fought for the Formula 1 world championship with Renault and with Ferrari.
First race with Aston Martin and first podium for him. And this project has just started. Everyone in the team stressed that this is the basis of the car and that there are many improvements to come in the next races of the competition.
The battle between Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton during the Bahrain Grand Prix pic.twitter.com/ZPUaLFfCVY
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Red Bull seems inaccessible at the moment. The superiority of his two pilots was total in Bahrain, leaving Alonso more than 30 seconds to cross the finish line.
Everything indicates that Verstappen will conquer his third consecutive World Cup. But the World Cup is very long. And with Fernando Alonso at the wheel of a competition car, anything is possible.