Fernando Alonso starts the 2022 season with enthusiasm, in which F1 launches regulations, and after a preseason where few things were clear and few teams showed all their cards, the Bahrain GP begins to clarify the general panorama of the grid.
Alonso on Saturday of the F1 Bahrain GP 2022
How has Fernando Alonso been the classification of the Bahrain GP 2022 of F1?
- Bahrain classification : Alonso, 8th with a time of 1:34.628, 1.637s behind the first. It will start in the fourth row of the grid
In a vibrant classification in which up to seven teams entered the top 10 reaching Q3, Alonso was in charge of placing Alpine among the best, with the eighth position that will make him start fourth on the grid on Sunday after the Haas de Kevin Magnussen.
Alonso had been eighth in his first attempt in Q1, and decided to go out on track with old tires in the second attempt, which prevented him from improving but not qualifying, 12th and with a certain margin, to Q2.
At the first attempt at Q2, Alonso was ninth, just behind Ocon, but was virtually through to the final round. Then he would improve to be 8th, while his partner was eliminated, 11th. And that same place, eighth, was the one he would occupy in the final Q3, taking advantage of a mistake by Russell at the end and improving Pierre Gasly’s time.
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How was Fernando Alonso in free practice 3 (FP3) of the Bahrain GP 2022 of F1?
- Bahrain Free Practice 3 : Alonso, 14th with a time of 1:34.628 with averages, 2.084s behind the first. did 15 laps
After finishing fifth on Friday and with very good feelings, we couldn’t see Alonso’s real performance in FP3. The Asturian stayed in the box in the first minutes of free practice 3, just as he had done in 1 and 2, and when he went out on the track, he did so with hard, which only allowed him to be 15th in his first attack to the clock, three seconds from the head.
The Spaniard lived calmly in FP3, and in fact did not appear again on the asphalt until there were 12 minutes left, with medium tires, surprising by avoiding the red Pirelli (soft) with which the rest of the teams set their best times. With the yellows, Alonso moved up to 14th place, 2.084s behind Verstappen, the fastest at the time.
After that lap, he returned to the pitlane, where he had to brake to avoid colliding with a Carlos Sainz whom Ferrari had unsafely taken out of the box. There was still one last stint to go but, again, Alpine insisted on the hard ones and we were left without seeing Alonso on the soft ones.
In addition, to finish, Alonso reduced his pace a lot so as not to do a last lap and get on the grid directly to rehearse a start.
Alonso on Friday from Bahrain
How was Fernando Alonso in training for the 2022 Bahrain GP in F1?
- Bahrain Free Practice 1 : Alonso, 8th with a time of 1:35.000 on soft, 0.807s behind the first. did 14 laps
- Bahrain Free Practice 2 : Alonso, 5th with a time of 1:32.877 on soft, 0.941 off the lead. did 24 laps
- Free practice 3 of Bahrain : they will be held on Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
Alonso’s result in Bahrain FP1 and activity
Fernando Alonso did not go out on the track as soon as the green traffic light came on in the first session, and in fact he saw the first few minutes from the garage. The first practice was stopped early when a piece of teammate Esteban Ocon’s engine cover came off the car and landed on the straight, forcing a red flag period.
There, everyone had to return to the pitlane, and Alonso left before anyone else when activity was going to resume. However, he pulled over at the end of the pit lane and let other drivers start their laps earlier.
When he finally rolled, on soft tyres, he managed to take second four tenths off Verstappen’s time, who had nevertheless achieved his mark on medium. The Spaniard would then be overtaken by Pérez, Russell, Leclec, Sainz, Stroll and Tsunoda , occupying ninth position with ten minutes to go.
In the closing stages, and with a new set of softs, he improved his time without being able to beat his own record in the first or third sectors, with a very nervous Alpine A522 and with which he finished eighth, 0.807 behind Pierre Gasly.
Alonso’s result in Bahrain FP2 and activity
Alonso also did not go out on the track at the start of FP2, although he did not take long to do so and in his first attempt, with mediums, he achieved a time that left him third, 1.2s behind Leclerc but ahead of the Mercedes. Little by little he was overtaken by other rivals who started later, and when the soft tires began to appear, Alonso was eighth.
The table changed with the fastest Pirelli , and Alonso set a 1:32.877 that put him first at times, setting records in the second and third sectors. Leclerc later surpassed him by six tenths, and Verstappen, even faster than the Monegasque, dropped Fernando to the third step. With soft in the Mercedes, George Russell also surpassed Alonso’s mark, as would Carlos Sainz with the Ferrari, but the Spaniard closed Friday in a hopeful fifth position.
He did 24 laps to finish the first day with 38 laps in total. By comparison, teammate Esteban Ocon finished 12th, half a second behind Alonso.
Alonso Thursday from Bahrain
Already on Thursday, Alonso presented his helmet for the 2022 world championship, without clarifying whether it will be only for the first two races, like the pink version of the Alpine A522, or for each grand prix. In Alpine’s first outing on the track, in February, he had shown a helmet more ‘his’, blue, but now it is pink.
Since Formula 1 changes its weekend format for this year, the drivers held the press conference on Friday morning instead of Thursday, and there we could see Alonso appear alongside Pierre Gasly, George Russell, Nicholas Latifi and Lance Stroll. In it, the two-time champion did not want to position himself on what he expects from the season, and gave his first assessments of what it is like to drive the new cars.
