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Fernando Alonso's age has become a topic of discussion after David Coulthard pointed out how exhausted the Spaniard looked after the race in Singapore. Alonso had a horrible race on Sunday as everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. The driver incurred damage early in the race and was missing performance because of that.
To make things worse, Alonso was overtaken by a beautiful move from Esteban Ocon during the race. What compounded all of this was a mistake entering the pits in his first pitstop that led to a 5-second penalty. Then as a final blow to his hopes in the race, the driver had a horrible second pitstop that dropped him to the back of the grid.
After the race, Fernando Alonso looked exhausted, as the race was certainly physically demanding. Looking at the Spaniard's demeanor, former Red Bull and McLaren driver David Coulthard remarked that Alonso seemed fatigued after the race which is not normal.
Talking to Channel 4, Coulthard said:
“Very off form for Fernando. Made that mistake coming into the pit lane, yes it is a tricky pit lane and having made some mistakes in pit lanes that can happen, but on the radio he was saying the car is undriveable and for the first time it seemed as if Fernando was throwing in the towel."
He added:
"That’s normally not at all the way he is. He’s just an absolute samurai fighter and just keeps going. Afterwards he looked like he’d really been through the wars and looked every one of his 42 years.”
It was a race to forget: Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso was not too happy with how the race went either. While recapping what an ordeal it was for him, the Aston Martin driver admitted that the team needs to look more closely at what happened this weekend.
He told F1.com:
“It was a race to forget. Everything went wrong today. Mistake going into the pits, slow pit stop, no pace in the car. It’s better that it happened all in one hit – and let’s not forget it’s actually our first non-scoring race of the entire season."
He added:
"We came here with pretty high hopes, but Singapore is quite a unique event – race pace is really dictated by the temperature of the tyres – and maybe we went a little bit too hard."
Fernando Alonso will now head to Suzuka, hoping for a better weekend in Japan.
