Fernando Alonso could not say goodbye to Alpine, at least in classification, as he surely would have wanted. The Spaniard, in a car that was not competitive throughout Saturday, couldn’t make it to Q3 in a Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in which it will start eleventh.
In which he was not comfortable on a track, in a ‘qualy’, which began a few minutes after an F2 that, due to a red flag, took longer than expected. Thus, with an asphalt that no one knew how it would be due to the existing rubber on the track, Alonso faced his penultimate challenge with Alpine.
And from the beginning it was seen that things were going to be complicated. Because no, they did not hide in the Free 3. It was what there was, and with what there was almost not enough to get to Q2.
He went right in. Very fair. So fair that she made it on the last lap of him and marking in yellow the first two sectors. It was by thousandths, and by thousandths he was also left out of the classification.
It was difficult to be in Q3 seeing the rhythm. Looking directly at the ‘no rhythm’ of the Alpine in this ‘qualy’. Because if he was bad, it is not that Esteban Ocon was much better.
The Frenchman, yes, placed the car in Q3. Alonso, for his part, could not do it for just 28 thousandths. The two McLaren, rivals of the Alpine, did enter.
Fernando had nothing to say on the radio after his attempt. from the car, greetings to the stands to say goodbye to Saturdays of F1 in this 2022.
Ahroa remains the race, one in which Alonso, as long as the car does not leave you lying As has happened on occasion or other, it is where he gets the best version of himself.