Fernando Alonso has started the Bahrain Grand Prix in an unbeatable way, the first stop of the 1 Formula 2023 World Cup.
However, the best was yet to come, and Alonso, not happy with the good data from free practice 1, flew in the afternoon session to lead the table with the best time.
With 1:30.907, the double champion became the winner, with enormous sensations aboard his new car, and being faster than the champion Verstappen and Checo Pérez, the fearsome Red Bull.
Social networks burn
Alonso's overwhelming debut at the controls of the AMR23 has infinitely multiplied the illusion of his already fervent and loyal admirers.
Social networks were on fire with Alonso's leadership in Free Practice 2 and a specific fact has made many dream of the long-awaited third World Cup, a goal that seems difficult but never impossible for a driver of the Asturian stature.
Although statistics are not a guarantee of absolutely nothing and are sometimes mere coincidences, the reality is that, for the last six years, the driver who has been the fastest in the free practice segments of Friday's session in the first race of the year has ended up winning the World Cup at the end of the season.
Hey, no, enough is enough, this is not, in any way, unacceptable, leave me alone... This is a provocation to the little common sense I have left. They say that all the drivers who finished leaders in the first FP2 in recent years were champions. Go to hell pic.twitter.com/lgSimsUJMp
— Antonio Lobato (@ alobatof1) March 3, 2023
Between 2017 and 2020 it was Lewis Hamilton, a witness that he took in the two years after Max Verstappen. Is it, therefore, a sign that glory is finally approaching again for Alonso?
In the Renault ranks, the Spanish driver was camped in the world championship in 2005 and 2006. 17 years ago, neither he, nor his team, nor his followers have lost the illusion of winning third.
