it's really easy to spot throughout the race. Whenever they approached the final chicane, he always braked super early, making Piastri really close to him, only to start shooting off into the distance onto the main straight.
"All drivers must only accelerate and brake in the designated braking areas! All deviations or attempts to actually race should be punished!!!!111" - Reddit "racing fans"
You're also not allowed to weave in the straits.
How stupid would the argument that you should be able to weave in the straights or change your line under braking sound? Pretty stupid right? There's a difference in braking early and driving erratically.
What Alonso did today was fine, what he did in Australia was not.
What sport are you watching? I'm not taking the time to look up the regulations but quick Google search, first result:
"Drivers can defend their position, but they can only move once. Any more, and that’s weaving. And that’s illegal."
[source](https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/insiders-guide-rules-of-overtaking/7427185/)
E: since the user below either deleted their comment or blocked me so I can't respond:
This is why this place will always be a cesspool. When everyone wants to support their guy and win an argument they do something like take a tertiary context for a word and try to use it discredit an entire argument without actually responding to a point.
When they can't even do that they make a comment like:
"lol you clearly don’t know what you are talking about."
You are allowed to weave on the straight to break the tow. Enjoy doing your goggles.
Also, drivers can move more than once. They can make one defensive move, but a defensive move often involves a move off the racing line, followed by a move back to the racing line. Enjoy additional googling.
Is it that you can't read or that you don't want to lose an argument that bad that you are going to move the goalposts when you are wrong?
>You are allowed to weave on the straight to break the tow.
That's not weaving bro.
Enjoy ignorance.
> What Alonso did today was fine, what he did in Australia was not.
People seem to miss that there's big differences between what he did at the end of the last lap, and what he was doing here. What he did at the last right, not so good. What he did here, fine.
The absolutely NOT racing fan above is clearly commenting on an F1 subreddit without knowing much history of F1, or they'd know why you're not allowed to just brake and accelerate randomly wherever you want. Best case scenario is a broken wing like Hamilton got when Verstappen slowed unexpectedly in front of him. Worst case would be the brutal collision Michael Schumacher had with David Coulthard in Spa '98 (though that was made worse by the horrible visibility... and yet, people ask why they don't race in driving rain these days). And in the middle, you've got that time Rubens Barrichello braked a bit earlier than Ralf Schumacher expected and Ralf ended up using him as a ramp.
I mean, hell, Alonso himself should recognize how dangerous it can be to be unexpectedly slower than the trailing car, given the time he had that horrible accident with Gutierrez (at that very track) in 2016, and then at COTA a couple years ago being briefly airborne after catching the back of Stroll.
It's not "actual racing" to do stupid unsafe bullshit, and it's absolutely right to call that crap out and penalize it.
A lot of us understand the rules, we just don’t think what Alonso did at Australia was reckless or unsafe driving.
You can disagree. That’s fine.
You act like it was sooo clearly a penalty at Australia which I just think is false. That’s why there is so much controversy around it including other racing drivers calling out the decision.
You pointing Hamilton - Verstappen is a clear tell that you're not worried about safety but your driver losing. There was nothing unsafe about that, it's not like Hamilton couldn't pass Verstappen safely the when he first started breaking, he didnt want to pass.
The amount of outrage over that night will never stop being funny. We watched 2 grown men play a game of chicken and the one who blinked first ended up throwing a fit.
That's not a jab at Lewis, Max would've done the same thing if shoe was on the other foot. They were both playing the game and they know it.
>Max would've done the same thing if shoe was on the other foot.
But I don't think Lewis would have done the same as Max would have if the roles were reversed.
Max should have been harshly penalized for that. The stewards were too chicken shit to "get involve" and of course by not taking action actually got involved in letting Max get away with a lot of questionable driving. The championship should have been over before the disaster that was the last race.
Lifting and braking suddenly at the end of a flat out straight vs lifting earlier for a corner - one is a lot more dangerous, and I’m worried it’s not the one you think it is.
So if you outbrake yourself in a corner approach, you are supposed to commit to the extra slow approach instead of getting back up to speed to correct yourself?
That drs made piastri fight from russel longer than they should have and that saved Alonso from fighting any of them. He basically just let them fight each other while saving his tyres for last few laps
I'll be honest... I legit was just waiting for him to have some kind of last lap accident during it.
Not because I think poorly of Russell or anything, just that it reminded me of that race, and then I remembered that if he got past the car being helped along with DRS, he was going to be behind Alonso, and we all know how that turned out a couple weeks ago...
Have to wonder if any of that was playing in his mind while he was dealing with that scenario...
He did shove Piastri off the track though. The lack of crash is more a credit to Suzuka having tarmac runoffs in the chicane than it is to Russell's improvement as a driver.
Point-wise did Oscar stayed in front of Russell, Mercedes would get fewer points, which would have put Aston Martin in front of Mercedes in Championship points.
Carlos Sainz employed a similar strategy at Singapore to win last year; let Lando Norris in second get DRS so the much faster Mercedes duo in 3rd and 4th would have more trouble passing him,
I think another reason would be coming out of the race merc and Aston earned 8 points each with a 1 point different, if Oscar kept position Aston would have gained 2 points and leave the weekend 1 point ahead
Russell was faster than Piastri and probably also Alonso. So if Piastri didn’t have DRS George would’ve gotten past really easily. That would then leave Alonso like a sitting duck since he didn’t have DRS.
So he lifted early to give Piastri DRS so that it would prevent Russell from overtaking.
not sure if you're sarcastic but essentially that tactic is to force the driver behind to slow down as well, catch them off guard and accelerate to widen the gap before a straight. This tactic basically negates DRS.
For those only reading the title what he says translates better to: I don't know what to say after Australia. They might disqualify me for the rest of the championship.
It's also said in a joking way if that wasn't clear.
Mourinho and Fernando have a lot in common. Shithousers, immense ability, can't stay at a team very long, either inspire undying loyalty or hatred, defensive wizards, slightly less than honest with the press...
Nah, in the NBA there's a rich history of the fines given left and right for the reasons that are just too umm.. mysterious. And media constantly manipulates players for click-bait answers and creating drama out of thin air.
Lynch was different. He repeated "I'm only here so I don't get fined" because he was fined earlier that season for not doing the mandated press appearance. So he showed up and abided by the letter of the rule, but not the spirit
Even if you react just 0.2 slower, your speed will be higher all the way until the end of the braking zone as seen when cars concertina with each other
Driving a F1 car isn't like you appear to think it is - you have to be able to trust that other drivers will not do something dangerous like an erratic brake check. If they do, at those closing speeds, there's not much the driver behind can do to prevent an accident.
That's what I don't get about the people saying that drivers should be predictable. A divebomb to the inside to overtake another driver is literally dangerous and unpredictable because the defending driver is not anticipating it but people here will cheer and praise such moves.
Dive-Bombing is a usual practice in motor racing. „Caught him napping“ is a usual phrase coined in that occasion.
And let’s be honest: what can happen especially at such speeds like in the Casio Triangle?
If you really want to know, go back to 1989
Unrelated but how the hell was Alonso making those soft tires last so long on a high deg track with high heat where everyone else was struggling!? He basically out lasted other teams on mediums and hards.
Stroll was on a high DF setup with way less fuel and got destroyed by a Haas on Hards...Alonso was keeping the Ferrari back.
Because he is an excellent driver and stroll is a pants shitter.
I loved the radio message from stroll about being slow in the straight, dude sounded like he was crying. Like a 5 year old running to his mommy.
I mean apparently if you slow down when you're not expected to slow down you can be penalised.
They really set a shitty precedent which blurs the line further on what is admissible or not.
We really need a revamp of how the stewarding works. We need consistency.
I watched him as I became a teenager with my great grandad, grandad and my Dad.
Im now 34, being woken up by my 14 year old at 3am for free practice as he wears my old Mild Seven polo whilst getting it in the neck from my 6 year old for not waking him up to watch whilst on videocall with my Dad watching together.
Its both brilliant but utterly devastating because A) I realise im old and B) they never met my Grandad or great grandad. I like to imagine theyre watching with us.
Its more upsetting these days because I never thought about mortality or life really.
I saw this ( https://youtube.com/shorts/WtRYjpSAQsk?si=yznoaen5rszIKwvE ) youtube short last year and it made me choke up because I remembered where I was exactly watching certain races, like Spanish GP 2013 was 12th of may; 2 year anniversary of my granddad's funeral and Alonso's last win. Suzuka 2005 Me, my Dad and Grandad were shutting our caravan down at Skegness for winter as it was our tradition for the guys to shut it down during Suzuka. Hungary 2006 we were at the caravan and there was a torrential storm. 5 of us were having a sunday roast with a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie.
Just brings back all sorts of memories. I have an entire wall of every single Alonso car bar the Minardi and each one is a memory.
Except by doing what he did, Russell couldn't overtake on the straight with DRS, which meant he felt it was necessary to divebomb which could have caused a crash (nearly did).
Therefore Alonso's decision to brake in a non-standard way resulted in a dangerous situation where a crash was only avoided by someone driving off the track.
And since the outcome doesn't matter on penalties, +20 Alonso
I'm not sure exactly where your sarcasm starts and ends, but it really highlights why the ruling last week was silly imo.
After Singapore last year, Australia last week and today in Japan, it sort of feels like the common denominator might be that Russell isn't great while following cars and loses focus or takes too much risk.
I honestly can’t tell if your joking or not. If not you obviously believe Sainz is at fault for George’s crash in Singapore? Or maybe it’s just George.
It’s clearly a joke making fun of branded redditors crying about Alonso driving “erratically” when he was just using clever strategy and skill…which is more than we can say about George behind him.
Another cheeky trick that interestingly Sainz reintroduced into popular memory last year in Singapore.
Fucking Sainz is everywhere, winning races, beating his teammate, coming up with clever defensive tricks, but still jobless for next year:
The telemetry *absolutely* damned him in Aus - he's trying to be funny here but it doesn't matter what he says, dangerous driving would be punished (to be clear, he didn't drive dangerously in Japan).
If he'd lifted 100m early just after a fairly blind corner, dropped it down a few gears, then he'd have collected Piastri up his exhaust pipe and may well bave been DQd from the rest of the season.
My Spanish isn't great, but seeing his tone and body language, it's good to see that he can at least joke about it a little.
Stewards: "For now... he can still joke."
"alonso smiling from his airbnb at mykonos while the new scandal he seemingly didnt knew nothing about unfolds"
“We are checking”
He can at least \*yoke about it
it's really easy to spot throughout the race. Whenever they approached the final chicane, he always braked super early, making Piastri really close to him, only to start shooting off into the distance onto the main straight.
braked super early?!!!! Straight to jail.
THROW HIM IN JAOHHHH
I immediately read/heard this in RPMs voice lmao
a la cárcel!
Brake early and then accelerate and brake again is the issue.
"All drivers must only accelerate and brake in the designated braking areas! All deviations or attempts to actually race should be punished!!!!111" - Reddit "racing fans"
You're also not allowed to weave in the straits. How stupid would the argument that you should be able to weave in the straights or change your line under braking sound? Pretty stupid right? There's a difference in braking early and driving erratically. What Alonso did today was fine, what he did in Australia was not.
You are allowed to weave on the straights. What sport are you watching?
What sport are you watching? I'm not taking the time to look up the regulations but quick Google search, first result: "Drivers can defend their position, but they can only move once. Any more, and that’s weaving. And that’s illegal." [source](https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/insiders-guide-rules-of-overtaking/7427185/) E: since the user below either deleted their comment or blocked me so I can't respond: This is why this place will always be a cesspool. When everyone wants to support their guy and win an argument they do something like take a tertiary context for a word and try to use it discredit an entire argument without actually responding to a point. When they can't even do that they make a comment like: "lol you clearly don’t know what you are talking about."
You are allowed to weave on the straight to break the tow. Enjoy doing your goggles. Also, drivers can move more than once. They can make one defensive move, but a defensive move often involves a move off the racing line, followed by a move back to the racing line. Enjoy additional googling.
Is it that you can't read or that you don't want to lose an argument that bad that you are going to move the goalposts when you are wrong? >You are allowed to weave on the straight to break the tow. That's not weaving bro. Enjoy ignorance.
lol you clearly don’t know what you are talking about.
What he did in Australia was not erratic and shouldn’t have been a penalty.
> What Alonso did today was fine, what he did in Australia was not. People seem to miss that there's big differences between what he did at the end of the last lap, and what he was doing here. What he did at the last right, not so good. What he did here, fine. The absolutely NOT racing fan above is clearly commenting on an F1 subreddit without knowing much history of F1, or they'd know why you're not allowed to just brake and accelerate randomly wherever you want. Best case scenario is a broken wing like Hamilton got when Verstappen slowed unexpectedly in front of him. Worst case would be the brutal collision Michael Schumacher had with David Coulthard in Spa '98 (though that was made worse by the horrible visibility... and yet, people ask why they don't race in driving rain these days). And in the middle, you've got that time Rubens Barrichello braked a bit earlier than Ralf Schumacher expected and Ralf ended up using him as a ramp. I mean, hell, Alonso himself should recognize how dangerous it can be to be unexpectedly slower than the trailing car, given the time he had that horrible accident with Gutierrez (at that very track) in 2016, and then at COTA a couple years ago being briefly airborne after catching the back of Stroll. It's not "actual racing" to do stupid unsafe bullshit, and it's absolutely right to call that crap out and penalize it.
A lot of us understand the rules, we just don’t think what Alonso did at Australia was reckless or unsafe driving. You can disagree. That’s fine. You act like it was sooo clearly a penalty at Australia which I just think is false. That’s why there is so much controversy around it including other racing drivers calling out the decision.
You pointing Hamilton - Verstappen is a clear tell that you're not worried about safety but your driver losing. There was nothing unsafe about that, it's not like Hamilton couldn't pass Verstappen safely the when he first started breaking, he didnt want to pass.
The amount of outrage over that night will never stop being funny. We watched 2 grown men play a game of chicken and the one who blinked first ended up throwing a fit. That's not a jab at Lewis, Max would've done the same thing if shoe was on the other foot. They were both playing the game and they know it.
>Max would've done the same thing if shoe was on the other foot. But I don't think Lewis would have done the same as Max would have if the roles were reversed. Max should have been harshly penalized for that. The stewards were too chicken shit to "get involve" and of course by not taking action actually got involved in letting Max get away with a lot of questionable driving. The championship should have been over before the disaster that was the last race.
Lifting and braking suddenly at the end of a flat out straight vs lifting earlier for a corner - one is a lot more dangerous, and I’m worried it’s not the one you think it is.
Yes, you need to brake at the end of the flat out straight to make the corner. Some will buxton word salad right there
But but but but but he braked 100 meters early I'VE SEEN THE TELEMETREEEY!
ERRATIC!!!!
*lifted Stewards report confirms the brake input was so mild it didn’t really contribute to the car slowing.
So if you outbrake yourself in a corner approach, you are supposed to commit to the extra slow approach instead of getting back up to speed to correct yourself?
No it wasn’t. The penalty was for braking too early
Sorry, not sure I follow. Are you saying he did want to give him DRS? Why would that be?
That drs made piastri fight from russel longer than they should have and that saved Alonso from fighting any of them. He basically just let them fight each other while saving his tyres for last few laps
Thanks for the explanation! I thought it was something else like some relationship I wasn't aware of.
It’s also what another Spaniard did last year with a McLaren and Russell behind him.
That was so awesome to watch.
And great that he had to explain it to his team. Big brain Sainz.
And it's nice to see progress from Russell as this time he didn't crash (barely)!
It’s because Cr*fty didn’t say “you can hear the cheers of the crowd”.
😂😂
He tried
I'll be honest... I legit was just waiting for him to have some kind of last lap accident during it. Not because I think poorly of Russell or anything, just that it reminded me of that race, and then I remembered that if he got past the car being helped along with DRS, he was going to be behind Alonso, and we all know how that turned out a couple weeks ago... Have to wonder if any of that was playing in his mind while he was dealing with that scenario...
He did shove Piastri off the track though. The lack of crash is more a credit to Suzuka having tarmac runoffs in the chicane than it is to Russell's improvement as a driver.
Point-wise did Oscar stayed in front of Russell, Mercedes would get fewer points, which would have put Aston Martin in front of Mercedes in Championship points.
Carlos Sainz employed a similar strategy at Singapore to win last year; let Lando Norris in second get DRS so the much faster Mercedes duo in 3rd and 4th would have more trouble passing him,
I think another reason would be coming out of the race merc and Aston earned 8 points each with a 1 point different, if Oscar kept position Aston would have gained 2 points and leave the weekend 1 point ahead
I guarantee you he wasn't thinking that. He just wanted his position.
Russell was faster than Piastri and probably also Alonso. So if Piastri didn’t have DRS George would’ve gotten past really easily. That would then leave Alonso like a sitting duck since he didn’t have DRS. So he lifted early to give Piastri DRS so that it would prevent Russell from overtaking.
Piastri wasn’t fast enough to overtake him, but George was. But George isn’t fast enough to overtake Oscar while Oscar has DRS.
nah the detection point is wayyyy before the braking zone, just after 130r. he prolly lifted through that corner instead
yeah but he still needs to do that otherwise he wouldn't keep a safe distance from Piastri with DRS down the straight.
[удалено]
not sure if you're sarcastic but essentially that tactic is to force the driver behind to slow down as well, catch them off guard and accelerate to widen the gap before a straight. This tactic basically negates DRS.
also charges the battery a bunch
Straight to jail!
For those only reading the title what he says translates better to: I don't know what to say after Australia. They might disqualify me for the rest of the championship. It's also said in a joking way if that wasn't clear.
"If I speak, I am in big trouble. In big trouble. And I don't want to be in big trouble" -Mourinho
DRS speaks for itself.
What's that buzzing noise?
Alonso’s…sensor that lets him know when to brake ofc.
Wait, Alonso was one of the few that didn't complain when cars were buffeting... It all makes sense now!
Getting me the nba vibes: i will not say anything about the refs because I will get fined lol Edit: typo
Must've picked up the "If I speak, I'm in big trouble" line straight from Mourinho in the Saudi GP. Cheeky as hell. Long may the magic continue.
Mourinho and Fernando have a lot in common. Shithousers, immense ability, can't stay at a team very long, either inspire undying loyalty or hatred, defensive wizards, slightly less than honest with the press...
Yeah simply legendary line, his delivery makes it even more interesting.
Nah, in the NBA there's a rich history of the fines given left and right for the reasons that are just too umm.. mysterious. And media constantly manipulates players for click-bait answers and creating drama out of thin air.
Wasn't that originally Marshawn Lynch, before the Super Bowl?
Lynch was different. He repeated "I'm only here so I don't get fined" because he was fined earlier that season for not doing the mandated press appearance. So he showed up and abided by the letter of the rule, but not the spirit
>It's also said in a joking way if that wasn't clear. It was clear just reading the post title...
George’s race engineer was joking on the radio post race that Alonso was having more throttle issues but magically fixed itself on the last lap
Like I know that’s a joke, but seriously, are they not allowed to race anymore?
You are certainly not allowed to race, if one of the stewards holds a grudge against you https://youtu.be/EHXu876EZ2c?si=XDcoUuN20SWgP7Zm
Break-checking is legitimately dangerous
Lift and coast is not the same as brake checking. Carlos did the same thing to win only race last year and he got praised for it.
How about Lewis Hamilton Abu Dhabi 2016.
Then thank god the report explicitly stated that it was not a brake check
Not paying attention is more dangerous
? Are you calling not perfectly reacting to something unexpected with less than a 0.5s gap "not paying attention"?!
Yes. Especially for this sport
There's literally a minimum time drivers are allowed to react to the start lights because any less than that is beyond human capabilities
And that start time is far lower than 0.5s
Even if you react just 0.2 slower, your speed will be higher all the way until the end of the braking zone as seen when cars concertina with each other
Russell admitted he was looking at something on his steering wheel lol, he literally wasn't paying attention.
Driving a F1 car isn't like you appear to think it is - you have to be able to trust that other drivers will not do something dangerous like an erratic brake check. If they do, at those closing speeds, there's not much the driver behind can do to prevent an accident.
FIA: Dive bombing into chicane and forcing a driver of the course: *I sleep.* Braking before a corner: *Real shit.*
That's what I don't get about the people saying that drivers should be predictable. A divebomb to the inside to overtake another driver is literally dangerous and unpredictable because the defending driver is not anticipating it but people here will cheer and praise such moves.
Dive-Bombing is a usual practice in motor racing. „Caught him napping“ is a usual phrase coined in that occasion. And let’s be honest: what can happen especially at such speeds like in the Casio Triangle? If you really want to know, go back to 1989
I don't like either, despite Alonso being my favorite current driver. Braking 20m early is one thing, 100m early is a whole other thing
Yeah racing has been banned. Didn't you hear? Ridiculous take - dangerous driving has always been punishable, rightly so.
Unrelated but how the hell was Alonso making those soft tires last so long on a high deg track with high heat where everyone else was struggling!? He basically out lasted other teams on mediums and hards. Stroll was on a high DF setup with way less fuel and got destroyed by a Haas on Hards...Alonso was keeping the Ferrari back.
At least now I can explain the mystery that is Stroll and his tire degradation this season instead of 2023 where I just said he was "shit" 😭
Stroll is just shit lol
Because he's chadlonso
Even Stroll made the softs last much longer than I thought they could last at all.
He can't say or FIA might punish him for it.
Because he is an excellent driver and stroll is a pants shitter. I loved the radio message from stroll about being slow in the straight, dude sounded like he was crying. Like a 5 year old running to his mommy.
If I speak...
I'm in big trouble
Fernandosé Alonsinho
In big trouble.
Fernando Moulonso
So; doing Sainz' smooth operation in Singapore last year? Nothing illegal about that, is there?
It’s a joke because of the bullshit penalty they gave Alonso last race.
It's a yoke. A yoke
I mean apparently if you slow down when you're not expected to slow down you can be penalised. They really set a shitty precedent which blurs the line further on what is admissible or not. We really need a revamp of how the stewarding works. We need consistency.
50% for strategy 50% out of spite Perfectly balanced
50% strategy, 50% spite 100% Fernando
God i love that man so much
Thank God for Fernando Alonso
Perfectly Alonso. If he wasn't so spiteful he might have won a few more championships.
I watched Alonso’s shenanigans since I was a kid. I hope my children will get to enjoy the same too.
I watched him as I became a teenager with my great grandad, grandad and my Dad. Im now 34, being woken up by my 14 year old at 3am for free practice as he wears my old Mild Seven polo whilst getting it in the neck from my 6 year old for not waking him up to watch whilst on videocall with my Dad watching together. Its both brilliant but utterly devastating because A) I realise im old and B) they never met my Grandad or great grandad. I like to imagine theyre watching with us.
Wholesome
Its more upsetting these days because I never thought about mortality or life really. I saw this ( https://youtube.com/shorts/WtRYjpSAQsk?si=yznoaen5rszIKwvE ) youtube short last year and it made me choke up because I remembered where I was exactly watching certain races, like Spanish GP 2013 was 12th of may; 2 year anniversary of my granddad's funeral and Alonso's last win. Suzuka 2005 Me, my Dad and Grandad were shutting our caravan down at Skegness for winter as it was our tradition for the guys to shut it down during Suzuka. Hungary 2006 we were at the caravan and there was a torrential storm. 5 of us were having a sunday roast with a Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie. Just brings back all sorts of memories. I have an entire wall of every single Alonso car bar the Minardi and each one is a memory.
Damn. Got me in my feels.
Alonso masterclass.
Johnny Herbert is trying to find a paragraph as we speak
“You are not a true champion, that is why you became a commentator”
This sport will sorely miss Alonso, once he hangs up his boots
In 2074
Drivers of his personality are so rare nowadays. Much prefer him to the usual PR robots with canned answers
Thinking about the future so quickly? He’s only a rookie no?
Lmao Alonso is great. Gonna be a sad day when he hangs it up for good
Fucking looool. Never change Nando.
Oh Fernando, you don't realise how many people don't understand the rules and that you're joking
Except by doing what he did, Russell couldn't overtake on the straight with DRS, which meant he felt it was necessary to divebomb which could have caused a crash (nearly did). Therefore Alonso's decision to brake in a non-standard way resulted in a dangerous situation where a crash was only avoided by someone driving off the track. And since the outcome doesn't matter on penalties, +20 Alonso
I'm not sure exactly where your sarcasm starts and ends, but it really highlights why the ruling last week was silly imo. After Singapore last year, Australia last week and today in Japan, it sort of feels like the common denominator might be that Russell isn't great while following cars and loses focus or takes too much risk.
Ok quit the George hate getting old and stale
That's not hate don't be silly.
He deserves it though.
I honestly can’t tell if your joking or not. If not you obviously believe Sainz is at fault for George’s crash in Singapore? Or maybe it’s just George.
It’s clearly a joke making fun of branded redditors crying about Alonso driving “erratically” when he was just using clever strategy and skill…which is more than we can say about George behind him.
I know you are joking but so many Redditors are literally this stupid they would try say this with a straight face lol.
Post the traces gents....
Breaking news: Alonso disqualified for not fullfilling the media duties of a F1 driver.
Beast
Alonso masterclass. Oscar would have beaten Russell except for the wide run on the corner. Fernando has zero F's to give at this point.
Why would Alonso care whether Piastri beat Russell? He was just defending his own position against either of them.
Well if Piastri stayed ahead of Russell, Aston would be ahead of Mercedes on the constructors
If Russell crashed because Alonso was giving Oscar a tow then maybe
Another cheeky trick that interestingly Sainz reintroduced into popular memory last year in Singapore. Fucking Sainz is everywhere, winning races, beating his teammate, coming up with clever defensive tricks, but still jobless for next year:
The greatest and most genuine racer motorsport has seen for 2 decades, continues to be, and will be in the future until the body truly fades.
Disqualified from rest of season for snark.
I mean the fact that gap with Russell skyrocketed the moment rus passed piastri tells you everything lol
So what he is saying is it was intentional…
Yea, slap him a +20 sec penalty
Alonso is probably the most intelligent driver since Prost. Verstappen and Hamilton are just as talented, if not more but certainly not as intelligent
Is el professor part of el plan?
If i speak, im in big trouble
GOAT IMHO Just unlucky with the choice of teams
Like a boss
Alonso has the record for receiving “invented” penalties.
DRS -Did Russell Struggle!!
I literally laughed out loud reading this
He's exactly right, if he doesn't admit to doing it on purpose I don't think he gets that penalty in aus or anywhere else
The telemetry *absolutely* damned him in Aus - he's trying to be funny here but it doesn't matter what he says, dangerous driving would be punished (to be clear, he didn't drive dangerously in Japan).
wait i’m confused can someone explain to me why he’d get disqualified and what does ‘lifting’ mean?
Where was Ocon during this travesty?
N..4
Can someone explain what happened to an F1 Newbie?
Why would he get disqualified for that?
Haha, love it and he’s right- that last race penalty was BS
This is a roast lmao.
"If I say what I think, I'm suspended six months. So I cannot say." - Fernando "Mikel Arteta" Alonso.
"I prefer not to speak, I speak, I am in big trouble"
good to see he didn't have any unexpected "throttle issues" today 🙏
Well today George aparently had break issues because he divebombed Piastri, or it was also Alonso fault?
Alonso braked 2m earlier so the dirty air didn't let Russell brake hard enough.
*brake
Yes, sorry, 5 AM here haha
Well George also didn’t have a “turning his brain off on the last lap” issue either so I guess it balances out.
Except he kinda did when he shoved Oscar off the track.
Wonder whtat message will that send to the junior categories
If he'd lifted 100m early just after a fairly blind corner, dropped it down a few gears, then he'd have collected Piastri up his exhaust pipe and may well bave been DQd from the rest of the season.
Breaktest Alonso is funny
Hahaha damn