Realistic 2015 Expectations for Fernando Alonso After Bahrain Grand Prix

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Published: April 25, 2015

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Fernando Alonso could only finish 11th in the 2015 Bahrain Grand Prix, but the two-time world champion probably took more enjoyment from last weekend's race than he did from the 2014 event.

Last year's Bahrain GP was one of the most miserable weekends of Alonso's disappointing five-year stint at Ferrari.

The Sakhir circuit's four long stretches brutally exposed the F14-T's lack of straight-line speed, and Alonso, having been out-qualified by new team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in what would prove to be a rare interteam victory for the Finn, was virtually nonexistent in the race.



While Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, behind the wheel of the dominant Mercedes cars, embarked upon one of the most thrilling wheel-to-wheel battles of modern times—a scrap that, in another year and in another car, Alonso would have been part of—the Spaniard was left to trundle his way to 11th position.

Alonso ultimately finished more than 30 seconds behind race winner Hamilton—pitiful when you consider that a safety car period created a 10-lap sprint to the finish—but his race is memorable for what happened at the end of, rather than during, those painful 57 laps.



As he approached the finish line, Alonso raised his right arm from the cockpit as he had done so often throughout his Formula One career, for those 32 grands prix victories, for those 22 pole positions and for those two titles in 2005 and 2006.

But in offering that mock celebration, marking the addition of two measly points to his underwhelming 2014 tally, Alonso had ridiculed Ferrari, the holiest, most successful team in the sport's history, when they most needed his support.

And he had insulted the stalwarts of the Prancing Horse's past: Mr Enzo Ferrari himself, Juan Manuel Fangio, John Surtees, Niki Lauda, Gilles Villeneuve, Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt and Luca di Montezemolo, who—accordin...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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