Fernando Alonso acknowledges getting it wrong in F1 Azerbaijan GP after Oscar Piastri’s false start, but the larger picture was lack of pace for Aston Martin.
Not only Piastri, but Aston Martin’s Alonso suffered from false start as well in F1 Azerbaijan GP in Baku. The Australian jumped the gun and the Spaniard – who is usually good in spotting these things – went along with the points leader and eventually suffered a 5s time penalty.
He didn’t drop back as Piastri did, but he didn’t have the pace either to push ahead. He largely ran outside the Top 10 and never looked in contention for points unlike in Monza. Once again, there was no luck in play when needed, but bad luck continued to hit him in good weekends.
“Yeah, in those moments, every movement that is happening in front of you, obviously, sometimes you react,” said Alonso to media. “And, unfortunately, I reacted to Oscar. I don’t think that it changed my race at all. We had very slow pace, and the final position, I think, is exactly the same.
“We have the worse car and nothing happens, not even a safety car, no reliability problems but it happens when we are at front, this is a trend of this year and we have to take it. I mean in Monza, I think it was a very strange weekend in terms of performance.
“We believed in Monza that we had the last car but I qualified in Q3. And we believed we had the last car in the race but we were fighting for points. That’s how it is normally. Here we thought to have the last car and this is the last car, performance like Monza happens once in a while,” summed up Alonso.
Teammate Lance Stroll went deep in the race in the hope of a safety car but he was not in luck. The team (62), though, lost sixth to Visa Cash App RB (72) after good showing from Liam Lawson, especially. They are not 10 points apart in the fight for fifth, where Williams (101) extended its lead.
Here’s Oscar Piastri on getting it wrong