Alonso made the finish on Sunday but he had a tough afternoon. Photo: AC
Fernando Alonso made clear his displeasure with Sergio Perez after the Mexican forced the Ferrari driver to partially cut the Monaco chicane.
Alonso also had an incident with Perez in Bahrain, who caused even the Iceman Kimi Raikkonen to lose his cool after they made contact at the chicane on Sunday.
“I think really I don’t want to take too much attention on this, because the most important thing of the race is that Felipe is good,” said Alonso when asked about the incident. “The second most important thing is that Rosberg won the race, and then with Perez that he has the car parked at Rascasse. I think that is only comment I can say.
“He was lucky this year with two or three incidents, in Bahrain he nearly had contact with Jenson, with me I was off the track to avoid the contact, here I cut the chicane to avoid the contact again. Kimi was not lucky because he didn’t avoid the contact, and at the end he retired. Only McLaren has to be happy with him, all the others we just need to do our work.”
Over the course of the race Alonso was overtaken several times, notably at the hairpin. He argued that it’s much harder for a title contender to take risks in wheel-to-wheel combat.
“Obviously I was disappointed that they passed. Here there is not room to overtake, so if someone starts the manoeuvre if you do the normal corner you will crash, there will be a contact. If you are lucky or not, it’s a different thing. So for sure when you fight for these positions with people that have two or three points in the championship they risk.
“I did the same in 2008, 2009, nothing to do, I was risking at the start, I was doing overtakings in strange positions, etc. And sometimes it worked, and if you have a front wing broken, nothing happened, you pit and you don’t lose anything. You’re fighting for the championship, so if we look in the mirror, someone tries to overtake us in Loews or the chicane, if we turn we crash, we don’t know if we are lucky or not.
“So that was not good. Why we found ourselves in that position? Because we didn’t have the pace today, and we didn’t have the pace in qualifying especially. You start at the front, you fight with the top guys, if you start seventh or eighth, there is the risk of these battles with people who have nothing to lose.”
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Alonso, brilliant! Possible to widen the barrier on entry-left by a few inches to prevent the dive-bombs?
Seems once the faster driver put the car’s nose besides your car, you MUST leave room to the coming car. Right? that’s what Alonso did when Sutil passed to him. That’s what same Perez did once Button did it to him in the same chicane and Perez lost his place. And actually there is a reason, if the front car is going slower the back runner will be approaching to it. So, front car have exactly the same choice… take same path, brake little late, and don’t give room to the car chasing you. But it’s much easier to think… I am WDC everyone else has to respect me? Definitely NOT. I agree Perez went to far. 6th and 8th would be much better to bring points to home for McLaren. But McLaren will be sure Perez understand that. The other reason I see Perez was catching Kimi was because Kimi was with Yellow Tires which are little slower than Red ones. But definitely Perez was giving the extra that a Hungry driver needs to show. Many people already mentioned why if even Hamilton driving like that was getting podiums or wining races… The reason is… he had more competitive car. Even Lotus… may be thinking that if McLaren finalize Perez Contract.. they could probably replace Grosjean or Kimi if Kimi moves to RB or Ferrari next year.
Perez was driving like an idiot he was putting himself in bad positions by doing a dive bomb from way back and if the other driver doesn’t see him or if room doesn’t allow he can’t back out of it because he already committed to the turn 3 seconds ago. Which is what happened with Kimi. When you are passing someone it is your job to get around them they aren’t required to leave you space until you are all the way beside them.
That’s not what F1 drivers rules… 20.4 specifically says about passing. You should write your own rules book or create your own FF race category. I agree Perez has been driving too aggressive and risking more that what he could already afford. But put any other desperate driver in exactly same situation… receiving orders on the radio from your team… Kimi is in soft tyres, you should take advantage while his tyres not getting the right temperature! that’s why I don’t blame Perez… in that case we should blame the whole team. But from drivers rule 20.4 says once the car behind put the car’s nose above rear wheels… the car must leave enough space.. not saying needs to let the other driver taking over. But LEAVE ENOUGH SPACE… which Kimi seemed to be probably not the ICE MAN
I am so terribly jealous you were able to get into such a position that would allow you to take the cover photograph for this article. And I thought the media section in Malaysia allowed me to get close!
Top stuff. Very interesting comments.
I notice that Alonso said nothing about the stewards view of his defence and cutting of the chicane. His criticism is only of Perez.
He did talk about cutting it, he had nowhere to go because he would have crashed into Perez. However he accepted that he cut it and had to cede a place
Exactly as Perez did when Button did it to him. So, it is not my guess… It is 100% allow
Perez went too far, and that is undeniable, but Alonso comes across as a whiner and a very poor loser, with his comments.