Fernando Alonso has revealed that he tried to protect team-mate Esteban Ocon by speeding up towards the end of the Monaco Grand Prix, but it was not enough to mitigate the Frenchman’s penalty. After Mick Schumacher’s crash had caused a red flag, the drivers needed to go to the end of the race on the
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Fernando Alonso has accepted that his crash in qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix was his fault, and has therefore offered an apology to his Alpine team. Alonso was gunning to try and displace Lando Norris for P5 and best of the rest having initially set a lap good enough for seventh. However, he overcooked
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Alpine’s Fernando Alonso sees no reason why he cannot add a third championship to his collection after his successful return to Formula 1 last season. Alonso scored points on 15 occasions in 2021 having returned from a two-year hiatus from the pinnacle of motorsport, and out-qualified team-mate Esteban Ocon 11 times while out-performing the same
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Fernando Alonso has cleared the air with FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem after he lashed out at the stewards follow the Miami Grand Prix. Alonso was given 10 seconds’ worth of penalties in Florida a fortnight ago, the first of which he humbly accepted after he whacked Pierre Gasly and ruined the Frenchman’s race into
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Renault CEO Luca de Meo says that Alpine have a responsibility to “protect” Fernando Alonso, Esteban Ocon and Oscar Piastri amid speculation over the Spaniard’s future. Alonso will turn 41 later this year having entered his 20th season in Formula 1 this year with Alpine. After winning 32 races and two championships in his first spell
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Fernando Alonso doubled his 2022 points tally at the Spanish Grand Prix, after an excellent recovery drive saw the Spaniard finish ninth at his home event. After a disappointing qualifying, Alonso opted to start from the back of the grid to allow changes to be made to his car. Both Alpine drivers appeared to have
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Former Formula 1 mechanic Marc Priestly has gone into detail around the issues at the McLaren team in 2007, indicating that a lack of communication served to make the situation worse. McLaren came into the 2007 season needing an all-new driver line-up having lost Kimi Raikkonen to Ferrari, while Juan Pablo Montoya headed to NASCAR.
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Fernando Alonso hopes that his home race in Spain can be the spring board for a string of good results as he aims to score points for the first time since Bahrain. The Spaniard ended the opening round of the season in ninth, and looked set to score again in Jeddah following an exhilarating battle
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Fernando Alonso has revealed that the stewards failed to do any diligence before giving him a five-second penalty for cutting a chicane at the Miami Grand Prix. Alonso has already been given a five-second penalty for his collision with Pierre Gasly when he dived to the inside and hit the Frenchman, ultimately spelling an end
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Alpine’s Fernando Alonso believes that the difficult season that Sir Lewis Hamilton is enduring in 2022 is emphasising the fact that no matter how good a driver is, it may count for little if the car does not have the pace. Having narrowly missed out on his eighth world champion last season, Hamilton and Mercedes
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