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Alonso takes intention at F1 broadcast over “grumpy man” portrayal
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Alonso takes intention at F1 broadcast over “grumpy man” portrayal

By Miles Cooper December 7, 2024
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Fernando Alonso has taken intention at Formulation One Administration [FOM] for portraying him as a “grumpy man” after a staff radio rant over the efficiency of his Aston Martin throughout Friday’s follow for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was broadcast.

The 2-time Formulation 1 world champion has a protracted record of well-known staff radio messages the place he has voiced his displeasure, most notably when with McLaren through the ill-fated Honda years final decade.

Frustration has been rising given Aston Martin’s struggles in breaking into the highest 10 this season, particularly given its sturdy begin to final 12 months’s marketing campaign, with Alonso telling his staff: “Worst automotive ever, and worst visitors preparation ever. Subsequent time I’ll do the out-lap myself.”

Regardless of his lack of delight with the AMR24, the Spaniard took eighth on the grid with a strong qualifying efficiency on the Yas Marina Circuit, giving Alonso and the Silverstone-based outfit the prospect to complete the 12 months on a excessive.

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Requested how he pulled off his qualifying efficiency after his frustration in follow, Alonso replied: “However as we speak I stated that I had an excellent feeling. So yeah, I imply, we began on the mistaken foot, for certain, the automotive was very disconnected entrance and rear. They weren’t speaking to one another.

“We made some set-up adjustments in a single day. We did not achieve bettering the efficiency, as a result of FP3, we have been seventeenth and nineteenth. So nonetheless not there. So we made additional adjustments earlier than qualifying, and evidently we discovered the window the place the automotive is happier.

“So yeah, these automobiles are so essential, the working window is so slim that it’s not straightforward to search out it. Plainly we did it earlier than quali. Blissful to start out eighth, however it is going to be a tricky race tomorrow.”

Alonso takes intention at F1 broadcast over “grumpy man” portrayal

Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin AMR24

Picture by: Glenn Dunbar / Motorsport Photographs

On whether or not the struggles in follow marked the bottom level of the season, Alonso levelled criticism at FOM for its broadcast choices.

“It was a nasty visitors. It was a frustration constructing. However yeah, as regular, you realize, some feedback are good, some feedback are unhealthy, however FOM has this repair with me, with unhealthy feedback – however I am proud of that. It is their job.

“Yesterday I had some constructive issues [to say] as properly however as I stated, FOM, they must promote that I am the grumpy man. They tried for a few years and they won’t succeed.

“I did not have an excellent time [in practice] however I feel all these conversations are very non-public together with your engineer. You are attempting typically various things. You talk about some out-lap preparations that possibly I do not agree with the engineers.

“They need to strive anyway, it would not work. So that you inform them, ‘Wow, you realize this – we knew it beforehand’, or one thing like that.

“However when you do not have all that context behind and also you simply put the radio message, it is simply mistaken. However it’s the approach they do it.”

Pictures from Abu Dhabi GP Apply & Qualifying

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