The conversations in radio exposed to Lewis Hamiltonwho lacked confidence in the decision and the strength of Fernando Alonso to continue on the track and wait for the team’s decision mercedess. .
On the 26th lap, the engineers of Aston Martin They were very happy on the radio with the small degradation of the tires and the role played by Fernando Alonso: “We are very satisfied with your management so far. This is very good”, to which the double world champion replied: “Yes, they have more degradation, you have to know how to use them. Let’s come closer and think about what we’re going to do.”.
Fernando Alonso tried to close the gap to Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes and threatened to make a ‘undermine‘, that is, overtaking Lewis Hamilton by spending more time on the track.
For this reason, on lap 26 Lewis Hamilton, panicked and aware that Fernando Alonso was closing in, consulted his team in despair: “Tell me what to do, should I follow? »
From Mercedes they replied: “At the moment we are satisfied with your management, We will continue to study the evolution of tires.”.
But the reality is that sooner or later Fernando Alonso was going to arrive and there was more than half of the race left. The Briton’s W14 started to suffer from tire degradation and the Aston Martin with the hard tire had a lot of resistance and a possibility opened up which left Mercedes in check: a clearance from Fernando Alonso.
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For this reason, on lap 31, Mercedes decided to stop to avoid this eventuality and extend what seemed inevitable by a few more laps. Hamilton himself was surprised by the decision of this “pit stop”, but they had no other choice seeing the pace of the Asturian on the track with the toughest.
But the AMR23 tires were so good that Fernando succeeded on worn tires with better times than Hamilton or Sainz, they had just stopped.
On lap 35, Alonso decided to stop using the same compound and positioned himself sixth and closer to Lewis Hamilton than expected. The Spaniard flew over the track and set his fastest lap.
Alonso caught Hamilton on lap 38 and passed him while under braking. already in the next round (39 the double world champion did not fail and He undertook a big hack at the seven-time world champion: “Yeah, let’s go!” celebrated on the radio