Fernando Alonso has suggested he could face another pit lane start at the Austrian Grand Prix following his retirement in Barcelona on Sunday.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Aston Martin opted to make changes to Alonso\u2019s car before his home race, adding further power unit components to his allocation.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The modifications breached parc ferm\u00e9 conditions, meaning Alonso was forced to start from the pit lane after qualifying 22nd and last on Saturday.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, the Spaniard\u2019s difficult weekend continued as he ground to a halt midway through the race, suffering his fourth retirement in seven grands prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThe engineer came on the radio saying to stop the car and jump out of the car,\u201d Alonso explained to media including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I imagined it was an ERS problem when you have to jump out of the car. Apparently, it’s the battery.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Alonso’s retirement compounded a highly challenging weekend for Aston Martin, as the Spaniard joined his team-mate Lance Stroll on the sidelines after the Canadian driver suffered a gearbox issue shortly after the start.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Alonso has suggested that his Barcelona woes will have a direct impact on his Austria weekend later this month, as he anticipates he will likely have to take another grid penalty.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe changed some of the parts and they broke in the race, unfortunately,\u201d\u00a0he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s maybe another pit lane start in Austria, but it’s what it takes now.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are struggling on performance, but also on reliability, it’s still not bulletproof. We’re still dealing with a lot of issues.\u201d\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso has suggested he could face another pit lane start at the Austrian Grand Prix following his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-738910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738910","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=738910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}