Blaž Štremfelj
V to the Alpine team they confirmed that he was Spanish Fernando Alonso after resigning in Saudi Arabia already left without one of three drive units, which he can use this season.
Alonso competed at a Jedi racetrack with a teammate Esteban Ocon struggled to rank in the top six when she stopped him towards the end of the race pump failure for coolant.
"Fernando was able to continue driving and the engine was still running, but not in the right conditions," he explained Laurent rossi, director of Alpine.
“This is a problem of new systems that are working for the first time. So it is with all teams. The advantage is that the problem is not in the design itself. The drive unit itself, or its design, is not in question, but the problem is that the auxiliary water pump is built into the engine. As it disintegrated, particles fell inside the engine. If you want to fix this, you would have to tear down the drive unit and thus open the seal. So this engine has been written off for us, although there is nothing physically wrong with it. ”
