FFernando Alonso will start third next morning after a sprint classification “quite stressful,” said the Aston Martin, who escaped a penalty for the busy exit from the pit lane in the final session and overtaking Zhou as best he could.
The marshals reviewed the data from the positioning/marshalling system, the video and the video from inside the vehicle and determined that Fernando passed the local driver on the pit lane and not before exiting the pits. So he has to dream.
“In SQ1 we were watching the radar and checking if it was going to rain. We made progress and safely reached SQ3 in eighth position before it rained harder. As the conditions changed, we were quite competitive,” said Fernando, who already He took a second in Canada with Alpine in conditions similar to today’s.
“The tires seemed to get better with each lap, but the circuit got worse with increasing rain. It was difficult to judge the level of grip and how much risk to take. Now we have the two races, so let’s see if we can score some points in the sprint and classify us well for Sunday,” he closed on the 14th.
