In the mixed zones of Formula 1 there is a maxim: ask the television of the driver's country. In the case of Fernando Alonso in the corrillo in English, there is a free letter, but in the corrillo in Spanish only asks DAZN, which pays a million for the broadcasting rights in Spain. The interaction is usually friendly, Alonso is a personal friend of several members of the chain, but this Sunday in Baku it was not like that. Strangely the leader of Aston Martin was concise, dry and at the end of the brief interview left a message for the narrator of DAZN, Antonio Lobato, with whom he maintains a close relationship.

"How are you? Satisfied?" asked Melissa Jimenez, the DAZN reporter sent to all circuits. "I'm happy," Alonso replied. And that's it. Nothing about his feelings, nothing about the race: just two words.

"What an overtake to Carlos [Sainz]," Jimenez noted. "I'm happy," Alonso repeated.

"What do you expect from next weekend in Miami?What does the future hold?" concluded Jimenez, who normally, by another unwritten law, has three questions at most. "Let's see what the future holds. But there on the plate they will have another opinion or have other interests. I'm happy," Alonso finished and, before leaving the mixed zone, he answered normally to other channels such as Sky Sports.

During DAZN's post-race program, Lobato himself offered context to the pilot's words without wanting to give them too much importance. "That little message I know who it's going for. We had a little discussion on Whatsapp about a story. Nothing to write home about. These are the usual things of Fernando, who throw this pullita like this as a joke from a distance, but well nothing serious. We have different ways of opining on some issues," the narrator assumed.

In the background of the discussion, it is assumed, the action between Alonso and Carlos Sainz in the Baku sprint race that forced commentators to get wet about which of the two Spaniards was right. The two-time Formula 1 champion claimed a penalty for his compatriot for having closed him against the wall at turn 2 of the Azeri circuit and Lobato, like the judges of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), considered that the action did not deserve punishment. As revealed by the journalist himself, who has been narrating Formula 2004 race since 1, the pilot later wrote to him on WhatsApp.


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