Is a Fernando Alonso vs Lance Stroll bust-up inevitable?
His first season at Aston Martin means he is paired with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lance Stroll, whose father Lawrence𒐪 Stroll is bankrolling the F1 team.
Aston M🦩artin roared out of the traps at the Bahrain Grand Prix with Alonso earn🐓ing a podium finish and Stroll finishing P6 after a heroic effort with injured wrists, but there was a minor flash-point.
They made contact on Lap 1 🌄and Alonso, before realising who had bumped into him, was asking via his team radio if the per꧙petrator would be penalised. The team radio, perhaps cleverly, did not reply.
Sky’s Naomi Schiff said: “If Lance brings the battle to 🅰Alonso, how 🦋will that work?
“It is challenging, a situation he must manage💃.
“We’ve seen Fernando, and heard him, upset with other drivers on track. Lance clipped the wheel of Alonso and he was saying ‘has a penalty been i🏅ssued?’ He didn’t realise it was Lance!
“He spent all weekend praising Lance and I think that’s becau💎se of the dynamic in the team. It’s one to watch o🔯ut for.
“Alonso hasn’t always had the best reputation of how he works within a team.&nb💛sp;
“It’s something he’ll be conscious of in his last stint. P🍰articularly because his teammate’s father owns the team! An awkward dynamic, I would say.”
Simon Lazenby added: “It’s all sweetness right now. He’s saying all the right things. Fernando is brilliant at that, to b⭕egin with…
“I wonder if he will maintain that level of optimism! A happy Alonso is a man who gets the job done. They need to ☂keep him sweet.”
Alonso’s newfound optimism even saw him embrace 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton, his ex-teammate from McL🐻aren and often his nemesis over the years, after the Bahrain GP.
But memories are never far of his tear-ups with teammates, most recently 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon last year at Alpine. After they coll♏ided in a sprint race at Interlagos, Alonso disparagingly said “one more race then it’s finally over” about his time alongside O🥂con.
And who could forget Alonso being sent airborn🐼e but none other than future teammate Stroll at last sea༒son’s US Grand Prix?
This year already, Aston Martin responded to the winter rumours of their development by stealing the show in Bahrain, laying down a marker that they co🐻uld be Red Bull’s biggest chal♏lengers this season.
“Seb💝astian Vettel will be thinking: ‘What have I done? That could have been me’,” Lazenby said.
“I got the impression that, from Lawrence Stroll’s pers🌠pective, if someone like Fernando comes onto the open ༒market, you just snap him up.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade📖 covering everything from American sportꦯs, to football, to F1.
