Alonso takes aim at F1 broadcast over “grumpy guy” portrayal

Fernando Alonso has taken intention at Formulation One Administration [FOM] for portraying him as a “grumpy man” after a group radio rant over the efficiency of his Aston Martin throughout Friday’s apply for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was broadcast.

The 2-time Formulation 1 world champion has a protracted listing of well-known group radio messages the place he has voiced his displeasure, most notably when with McLaren throughout 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 yr’s marketing campaign, with Alonso telling his group: “Worst automotive ever, and worst site visitors preparation ever. Subsequent time I’ll do the out-lap myself.”

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

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

“We made some set-up modifications in a single day. We did not reach bettering the efficiency, as a result of FP3, we had been seventeenth and nineteenth. So nonetheless not there. So we made additional modifications 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 seek out it. Plainly we did it earlier than quali. Completely happy to start out eighth, however it may be a tricky race tomorrow.”

Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin AMR24

Picture by: Glenn Dunbar / Motorsport Photos

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

“It was a nasty site visitors. It was a frustration constructing. However yeah, as common, you recognize, some feedback are good, some feedback are unhealthy, however FOM has this repair with me, with unhealthy feedback – however I am pleased with 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 a very good time [in practice] however I feel all these conversations are very non-public together with your engineer. You are attempting typically various things. You discuss some out-lap preparations that perhaps I do not agree with the engineers.

“They need to strive anyway, it would not work. So that you inform them, ‘Wow, you recognize 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 fallacious. However it’s the method they do it.”

Photographs from Abu Dhabi GP Apply & Qualifying