The start of the Bahrain Grand Prix it was a bit bumpy for Fernando Alonso. The double world champion Formula 1started fifth, lost position and fell to seventh in favor of george russell there Lewis Hamilton.
In addition, he suffered a touch in turn 4 which could cost him the race, but fortunately nothing happened. Spear Stroll he hit it and his front wing touched his right rear wheelalthough fortunately it did not cause a puncture.
Alonso kept the copla and demanded an explanation from Aston Martin: “They hit me at turn 4, check.”
“I understand. We have seen it and we are working on it. For the moment, we see everything well,” replied his engineer by radio.
“Already but they can’t do that…” replied Alonso, to which the team, who knew it was his teammate, kept throwing balls: “Yes, understood, we are thinking about it.”
Half an hour later, when the race was well advanced and in full fight with the mercedes and the FerrariFernando asked again.
“Have you investigated the incident?”he said on the radio. “They investigated, but they did not punishthey answered him before telling him the reality.
“Well, just so you know what happened at the start, in turn 4 Lance was trying to pass George and when you were trying to lasso Hamilton, Lance couldn’t stop in time”they explained, specifying that “no car was damaged, so everything is fine”.
“Okay, I thought it was George”said Alonso, that after the race analyzed the incident with ‘Checo’ Pérez.
“Have you investigated the incident?”
“When you were trying to curtsy with Hamilton, Lance couldn’t stop in time”
An unprecedented conversation between Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin after the contact with Stroll that we see in ‘Código F1’ pic.twitter.com/kH2f2VUyB5
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