Fernando Alonso shined again at the Singapore Grand Prix. With an Aston Martin that is not up to much racing, the Asturian driver managed to rescue an almost miraculous eighth position that continues to consolidate his position as the best driver of the rest. But that was not the only thing a flash of genius that Alonso had.
In free practice on Friday, Alonso was close to having a serious accident, but he magically managed to avoid it with a wild counter-steering. However, while doing so, he pressed almost all the buttons on the steering wheel, and that gave rise to a surreal Alonso’s explanation and the parallelism between a Formula 1 car and the oven from his house.
Alonso made a miraculous save using a trick never seen before in Formula 1
It happened in Friday’s free practice. Alonso’s Aston Martin AMR24 went behind, but with barely enough time for the wheels to start spinning, the Asturian driver took off. an extreme counter-steering that managed to keep the car on the track without crashing into any walls. However, in the heat of battle, Alonso pushed many buttons.
“Did you press the button to enter the pits?” Alonso was asked by the Aston Martin radio station. The Spanish driver’s answer was quite blunt: “No. I pressed all the buttons on the steering wheel to avoid an accident.“, Alonso replied to his team. He then spoke further to the press.
When asked by journalists what had happened in that incident, Fernando Alonso gave an unprecedented answer in this world: He applied a trick he learned with his home oven to control his Formula 1 Aston Martin. “I did what we all do at home, right?” he said jokingly.
“It happened to me last week with the oven at home.“I don’t know why it wouldn’t turn off, so I had to press all the buttons, reset everything and in the end it turned off. So that’s more or less what I did today,” Alonso told the stunned press waiting for him at the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix.
Obviously, it was probably just a joke, and Alonso actually just pushed the buttons in the heat of the moment. But the truth is that Formula 1 steering wheels are increasingly riddled with buttons and that, intentionally or not, this time the trick worked for Alonso again.
Fernando Alonso doing what 99.9% of the world’s population would do, but being that 0.01% who does it well. HE’S A GENIUS
“To avoid the blow I pressed all the buttons” #SingaporeDAZNF1 pic.twitter.com/e9pDnoj5pB
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) September 20, 2024
If you are ever manipulating The home oven thinks it’s not that different from a Formula 1 car. Or at least that’s what Fernando Alonso says.
Source: www.motorpasion.com
