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On his return to Formula 1,
Fernando Alonso
had a bittersweet ending.
Good feeling about the
Alpine
, but had to drop out due to a faulty rear brakes.
After the race, the team revealed that the cause of the failure was
wrapping
paper
from a sandwich
that fell into the brake duct.
The Asturian, in the Grand Prix of his re-run in Formula One after two seasons of absence,
achieved ninth place in the standings and came to occupy seventh during a race
in which he was forced to abandon on lap 33, when I was in 15th place after changing the wheels.
According to the executive director of the Alpine team,
Marcin Budkowski,
during his second and final stop to change the tires, "a wrapping paper from a sandwich got stuck inside the rear brake duct of Fernando's car."
"This
caused a high temperature and caused damage to the braking system, so we told him to withdraw for safety reasons
. It was very unlucky for Fernando's first race, considering how well he had gone," Budkowski admitted in statements to the team's official website.
Before that incident, Alonso's Alpine A521 already had "a small problem" that forced the engineers of the French team to "reduce the performance of the car," according to the team director.
Alonso himself admitted after the test those problems prior to the final cause of the abandonment.
"The brakes have been the cause of abandonment but
before we had some problem with the batteries
. It was a race against the foot, but it was exciting," he told 'DAZN F1' after the race.
The next World Cup event will be at the
Emilia-Romagna (Italy) Grand Prix
that will be held from April 16 to 18 at the Enzo e Dino Ferrari Autodrome in Imola.
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