After the FIA will take away from Fernando Alonso its meritorious seventh place in the US GP. was 14 points behind his closest rival in the standings, his teammate Stephen Ocon. Nevertheless, after cancellation of the penalty the Spaniard has added those six points and now the battle is more alive than ever.
Ocon has 78 points, while Alonso now has 71. Seven points of difference separate them with three races to go. Mexico, Brazil and Abu Dhabi.
the many reliability issues that the ’14’ has suffered have meant that the Spaniard has always been behind his teammate in the standings, despite the fact that the performances of both on the track showed otherwise. As he has said on more than one occasion, all those problems have made him lose up to more than 60 points.
“It has been one of my best seasons, but yes, the classification will not say that at the end and probably i will finish behind“, Alonso said talking about his partner after the race in USA.
Also, the strategy has also sometimes failed. For example, in Japan, the man from Oviedo asked to stop earlier to mount the intermediate tires, something that Alpine ignored and in the end the Spaniard finished seventh. According to calculations, if he had been stopped when he asked for it, could have finished second.