It seems Fernando Alonso is chronically unlucky: he only managed to earn a few points in the first leg in Bahrain, and in the remaining three races he had two retirements, and once (in Australia) the safety car pulled out of the track to the most inappropriate moment for him, and it all ended with a distant 17th place, two laps behind the leader.
Sunday in Imola also happened to him, according to the Spaniard, “very painful”. His race ended just six laps after the start in the pits. At the Variante Tamburello chicane, Alpine driver Mick Schumacher’s Haas made a U-turn on the rain-soaked road surface, and although the impact was minor, the A522 sustained serious damage that prevented him from staying on track.
“Looks like luck has turned its back on me, and everyone will agree,” Fernando lamented in an interview with the Spanish press. – Reliability issues prevented me from qualifying in Australia, and in Imola at the start of the race, when everyone was pushing, nothing else happened to anyone – it seems the rest have some kind of anti-shock cars – and only our Alpine after contact with Haas Micah is destroyed.
I don’t even know if we can use this chassis in Miami yet. Many things happen that we cannot control, and this is not due to our mistakes. It’s just that all problems are due to the fault of others. All this is very painful.
When contact was made with Mick, he was very light, I could barely feel him, but he was enough to cause serious damage to my car. So far this season, all kinds of problems have haunted me, and this does not depend on me. Now another has happened.
But we’ll see, there are still 19 races to go. Last year, after Imola, I only had one point in my account, but then I was performing quite competitively. I hope this year will be the same. I’d rather end the season well than start well and then roll back.
But this year I’ve seen the races on TV too many times, although behind only four stages, and only two points for me. Too bad, because there should be 25-30.
But my mood is still better than many, because it can’t be said that I forgot how to start properly, adjust the car, or that my partner is a second ahead of me and I can’t catch up.
If that was the case, I’d be the first to raise my hand and admit it was time for me to do something different. But so far it’s the other way around and I still love racing.”
Source: F1 News

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