Mike Krack, Aston Martin Formula 1 team principal, believes that Fernando Alonso remained “master of the situation” at Dutch Grand Prix. He appreciated the Spaniard who charged from fifth to second place in rain affected race.
He won the last podium at Canadian GP in June. Proceeding it he could not manage better than fifth at four event until Dutch GP.
Alonso started the Zandvoort race in fifth place. However, he went in for intermediate tyres on the second lap which costed him positions at the start of the race. He made great progress to third place before he went for pit stop again on lap 48. Due to wheelgun failure, he lost six second before he joined back on track.
Alonso stormed Carlos Sainz during the chaotic late storm for the second place. He also managed to mark the fastest lap before finishing second.
A torrential downpour with seven laps remaining halted race with red flag. At resumption of race, Alonso had a chance of winning the race. But Max Verstappen surpassed him and gain an advantage of 3.7 seconds before finishing the race.
Alonso told his team “we will win one race soon, we are getting closer” after completing the race.
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“The good thing was that he was in control all the time,” Krack claimed bout Alonso outstanding performance.
“And he was always the master of the situation I would say, and this was key obviously also in such conditions to never go off.
“There were some situations where it was really about surviving which he managed, and then at the end if the opportunity would have been there [to pass Verstappen], he would have tried.
“You saw also in great style how fast he was in the first four or five races, to come back [after the stop delay] and pass the two cars, it was just incredible.
“And then the rain at the end staying out also. Because the rain was so torrential we were quite sure that there would be an incident. But you hope obviously it’s not you creating that incident!”
