Of the chaos of Silverstone It came out Alonso With a ninth since he knows better by the end than at the beginning, but that he stays halfway. The Asturian wanted rain and there was so much that Aston Martin He was not enough to shrink her. Nor to choose the shoes with which to dance about her. Something more successful the last pair than the first, but it was not like that of El Tuerto in the country of the blind. It ended ninth after the bad strategy at the first stop and overcome from the last position after the second step by boxes.
The opposite that happened to Strollone of the pilots, with permission from Hulkenberg, who more and better fished in the scrambled River of Silverstone. And that his strategy at the beginning seemed wrong. In the first measures, when they subtracted just six laps for the rain to invade Silverstone, he entered boxes under a virtual safety car To mount dry tires while the rest of the grill was with intermediates.
A choice that resulted in a fourth final place because it won so much time in those laps that when it came to put intermediates had already opened a hole with the rest of the pilots. Two strategies and two different realities. Alonso Bramó himself by radio. «It is crazy that you never succeed with me»He said after the first stop that left him tenth and behind him all of them with new wheels except Ocon.
The last strategy was more successful, although its possibilities of success were directly proportional to the risk it hid. Because Fernando rolled eighth when there were 13 laps and listened by radio. «Box, box». The track was dried, but still slipped and Aston Martin decided to ride soft rubber. The Asturian He was the first pilot to do so and suffered during the first turns. He multiplied efforts to make corrections in order to avoid a track exit.
He focused on it while the sangria of time came to be in the seven seconds per lap. Only the passage of the laps was his ally. As you discontinued the turns, better times marked the Asturian. Surpassed a Russellwho copied Fernando's strategy a lap later and undertook an exprés that reached him to land in the eighth place of which he lowered him Albon On the horn. In the end ninth, two positions less than before the last strategy.
«I lost 25 seconds in three laps. The second stop has been three or four laps before, but the team has the data and when it calls you boxes … Last year there was already a similar situation. They have decided that this was the time to stop and lost 25 seconds in three laps. The first stop has more excuse. It was difficult to take risks because we were in a position above, it was understandable. Still it was two or three laps late and the second two or three laps soon. It has been a disappointing and difficult to execute career. We have let out a great opportunity, ”Alonso said at the end of the race.
