Alonso yellow flags Baku quali [split]

Edited by ANF, 11 June 2022 - 14:47.

ALO, the clever old fox. Monaco again…

And parked it…

Edited by blacky, 11 June 2022 - 14:47.

Edited by w1Y, 11 June 2022 - 14:49.

Ah yes, Alonso up to his tricks again

Alonso should be penalised

Alonso playing games to preserve his Q2 placing.

Possibly like his 'spin' in Hungary a few years back. 

Wow Albon is not happy.

Must be a penalty for Alonso.

Yeah, he's hacking at the wheel for no reason whatsoever. Clearly deliberate.

Alonso just trolling, that was 1000% on purpose.

That did look odd, I wonder if they will investigate it.

Edited by draghixa, 11 June 2022 - 14:55.

Poor from Alonso, seems very disinterested often and ends up doing weird things just to amuse himself

The Norris flags should be looked at too, in my view.

Nothing special, happens

With respect, if it’s deliberate, it being nothing special to bring out yellow flags to stop those behind you from beating your time would be massive news to the Fernando Alonso of Monaco in 2006.

That was Alonso doing his best Rosberg impression. I have to hand it to him: I laughed. Of course, it deserves to be penalised. I'll be surprised if it is, though.

Edited by FirstnameLastname, 11 June 2022 - 15:41.

He did it in Australia too - brought out red flags when drivers were setting purple sectors in Q3

By crashing due To car failure on a hot lap destined for 2nd row?

By crashing due To car failure on a hot lap destined for 2nd row?

By crashing due To car failure on a hot lap destined for 2nd row?

Injured his hand in the process too. The perfect cover, you can't deny the man's commitment.

It's not very fair to blame Alonso but not other drivers just because Albon's complain was broadcasted, is it?

The Norris flags should be looked at too, in my view.

I had a look at it on timing/track position screens. Norris was on a slow lap and drove into the T15 escape road to get out of the way for Vettel who was on a push lap. Vettel set a personal best sector 2. It happened at about 19:04:04 local time.

I had a look at it on timing/track position screens. Norris was on a slow lap and drove into the T15 escape road to get out of the way for Vettel who was on a push lap. Vettel set a personal best sector 2. It happened at about 19:04:04 local time.

Thanks for clearing that up, ANF.

It's not very fair to blame Alonso but not other drivers just because Albon's complain was broadcasted, is it?

This stuff becomes increasingly annoying

Was it Ericsson again?

Vettel?

it's pretty clear (both the slowing and the yellow flag) but no way to punish him imo

you can call it smart

Feels like the only reason Alonso came back to F1 is just to troll and bend the rules

Edited by BCNF1, 11 June 2022 - 17:41.

Last race playing tricks on Hamilton to piss him of as he still bitter over 2007, and getting his teammate out of the points cause a huge train by purposely driving over 3 seconds slower per lap (which in itself should be s regulation for) now this, surprised if no punishment.

Hamilton is the one who get investigated for driving too slow.

Hamilton is the one who get investigated for driving too slow.

Really? I mean, that's a bit harsh. He is somewhat off the pace, but Russell is not exactly hanging about!

Last race playing tricks on Hamilton to piss him of as he still bitter over 2007, and getting his teammate out of the points cause a huge train by purposely driving over 3 seconds slower per lap (which in itself should be s regulation for) now this, surprised if no punishment.

Bit rich from Albon after Monaco. Everybody is racing you so hard Alex. 

But I think there werent many cars behind Alonso? Just the williams and maybe the Haas, who I doubt were much of a threat...?

I'm quite happy to call it a genuine mistake unless proven otherwise. I think many are quick to jump to conclusions. Yes, Alonso does seem to like pulling stuff like this lately, like cutting turn 1 at Sochi last year. But we've seen plenty of that at that corner all weekend.

I just watched it again for a first second time and yeah, I'm pretty sure he parked it. Early braking, very weird steering inputs, still seemingly under total control at all times. It looks like got the car slowed down in time to make the corner quite easily if he had wanted to. Albon said on the radio that Alonso had been driving slowly the whole lap: His first sector was a 37.1, three tenths off his personal best in Q1. I clocked the cars manually on the Track Position screen and between the control line and T14, Alonso seems to lose about 2 seconds to Gasly (the car in front). Behind Alonso (P11 at the time) there was a whole train of cars: Albon (P16), Bottas (P17), Latifi (P18), Zhou (P6, the only car that wasn't a threat to Alonso since he was already ahead on the timing screen), Magnussen (P15), Schumacher (P20), Norris (P12), Ricciardo (P14). What about the other Alpine with Ocon (P8 at the time)? He didn't even bother to go out and make a final attempt.

I just watched the onboard video of Alonso's last "flying" "push" lap (from T3 to the "off" at T15) and – I kid you not – in order to see if he had any cars behind him, he was looking in his right mirror coming out of T4, in his left mirror coming out of T6, in his right mirror coming out of T7, and again in his left mirror coming out of T12. This was definitely not Fernando Alonso trying to advance to Q2 by setting a fast lap time. To me it looks like pathetic, blatant cheating.