After having left a good feeling in the first stages of the qualifying session, Fernando Alonso was unable to finish his last flying lap when he hit the protections due to a braking error that left him out of the game.
despite staying on the verge of falling eliminated in Q2 in one more Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso saved the furniture by hundredths after not improving as much as the others in his second attempt of this qualifying round, thus interfering among the ten fastest in the Principality.
When it managed to roll without traffic and consequently join the three sectors, #14 showed enough pace to be proclaimed the first of mortalsbehind Ferrari and Red Bull, rising to a 5th position that would have tasted like glory.
Nevertheless, at the moment of truth, everything ended up going against him: An error in the braking of the mythical Mirabeau curve ended up sending him directly against the protections in a lap that, in any case, could not have finished even if he had not hit the guardrail due to a spectacular accident by Pérez later.
Mea culpa
“I made a mistake at turn 5… I started the lap a little too regularly, with the brakes already too cold,” Alonso confessed. «At turn 3 I began to doubt whether to abort the lap or continue… then I looked at the wheel, I made a change to pass the braking distribution to the rear ».
“All these things, in Monaco, you don’t have time to do them. I lost the braking point for a moment and the truth is that… I could have done something more today, and a mistake of mine does not leave a good taste in your mouth”, added the man from Oviedo, saddened by not having been able to climb more positions in a circuit in which the pilot’s hands They say something more than usual.
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However, the two-time Spanish Formula 1 champion refuses to throw in the towel at this point in the weekend, even though the most important session of a unique Grand Prix like Monaco has already concluded.
rain dance
The weather conditions in which Sunday’s race will be held are, without a doubt, the main reason why Alonso remains optimistic.
«Let’s see tomorrow with the rain what can be done. Tomorrow is the race, and with the rainy conditions I think it’s going to be a bit chaotic. Very stressful for us, maybe pretty from TV, but for us it’s going to be a very long afternoon, “he said.
“Very stressful for us, maybe pretty from TV, but for us it’s going to be a very long afternoon”
«The time trial had been quite good: on the first try we were 5thso now when we lost it with Norris and with Russell… we might as well have been ahead of them if I had completed this last attempt, “concluded Alonso.