{"id":136193,"date":"2025-09-11T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136193\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:00:07","slug":"the-luck-is-not-with-us-this-year-fernando-alonso-rues-very-frustrating-retirement-at-monza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136193\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The luck is not with us this year\u2019 \u2013 Fernando Alonso rues \u2018very frustrating\u2019 retirement at Monza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fernando Alonso was left to rue a \u201cvery frustrating\u201d end to his race at the Italian Grand Prix after being forced to retire due to a suspension failure on his Aston Martin, with the Spaniard disappointed to miss out on more points.<\/p>\n

Having lined up in P8 on the grid, Alonso<\/a> enjoyed a strong start to the race as he tried to chase Gabriel Bortoleto<\/a> up ahead. When the two both pitted on the same lap, it was Alonso who emerged ahead of the Kick Sauber<\/a> in P7.<\/p>\n

However, things unravelled when the two-time World Champion was hit by a suspension failure on the AMR25 shortly afterwards, forcing him to return to the pits and retire the car.<\/p>\n

Given that the team are locked in a close midfield scrap<\/a> with their competitors \u2013 with Racing Bulls<\/a> now just one point away from sixth-placed Aston Martin<\/a> \u2013 Alonso conceded that it was tough to lose out on another opportunity to add to their tally.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It was] very frustrating, because we were into the seventh place I think,\u201d the 44-year-old explained later on. \u201cTo secure seventh place [would have meant] another six points for the championship and we lost again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember [in] Monaco retiring the car with an engine problem being P6, today suspension problem being P7, so the luck definitely is not with us this year and we are losing a lot of points.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut a well executed race, we overtook [Kimi] Antonelli<\/a> at the start, we overtook Bortoleto at the pit stop and everything was looking good.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked how frustrating it felt to leave everything on the line only to come away with no points, Alonso responded: \u201cIt is frustrating but, yeah, I\u2019m getting used to [it] unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was also disappointment on the other side of the garage for Lance Stroll<\/a>, who ran a long first stint after starting from P16 on the grid in the hope of benefitting from a Safety Car. This did not occur, meaning that the Canadian ended the Grand Prix down in 18th and last place.<\/p>\n

The squad will be hoping for better when the paddock moves on to Baku for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix<\/a> on the weekend of September 19-21, a venue that was the scene of Stroll\u2019s first F1 podium back in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso was left to rue a \u201cvery frustrating\u201d end to his race at the Italian Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-136193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}