{"id":229389,"date":"2025-07-01T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229389\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:24:09","slug":"fernando-alonso-avoided-an-incident-in-untelevised-lewis-hamilton-battle-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/229389\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Alonso avoided an ‘incident’ in untelevised Lewis Hamilton battle in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Untelevised footage has emerged of Fernando Alonso running off the track when Lewis Hamilton was a \u201clittle bit late\u201d with his move to overtake the Spaniard at the Austrian Grand Prix.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alonso recorded his third top ten result of the F1 2025 championship with a seventh-place finish at the Red Bull Ring.<\/p>\n

Fernando Alonso: Hamilton was a little bit late<\/p>\n

Having qualified 11th, missing out on a Q3 berth by 0.076s, Aston Martin ran Alonso<\/a> on a one-stop strategy that meant he was ahead of Hamilton after the Ferrari driver came in for a pit stop.<\/p>\n

Notably quicker than Alonso and with the assistance of DRS, Hamilton launched an attack on the Spaniard for position.<\/p>\n

Riccardo Adami to Hamilton: \u201cYou\u2019re racing Alonso, Alonso lap time 12.2.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton drove up the inside of the Aston Martin at Turn 1 and closed the door on the exit of the corner with the double World Champion running off the track.<\/p>\n

Alonso told Aston Martin: \u201cHamilton was a little bit late. I had to go off to avoid an incident, but all good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew Vizard, his race engineer, replied: \u201cCopy, we saw mate. Let\u2019s just get back, you\u2019re doing a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on the Austrian Grand Prix<\/p>\n

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Alonso completed the 70-lap Grand Prix in seventh place, the second of the drivers who ran a one-stop with the first, Liam Lawson, just ahead of him.<\/p>\n

Alonso was within DRS of the Racing Bulls driver for large parts of the Grand Prix and was at one point told by Vizard that he needed to \u201clift and coast into Turn 4.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 43-year-old replied: \u201cThis pace is not real. As soon as I lose the DRS, you will see the real pace. So you decide.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained to DAZN<\/strong> that he deliberately did not try to attack the New Zealander as he needed the DRS from the Racing Bulls driver to maintain his AMR25\u2019s speed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never wanted to pass Liam at any point,\u201d Alonso said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did a race as if it were a time trial on a bicycle. I just had to stay tucked in behind, take advantage of the three DRS straights, and then in the four corners in between push like it was qualifying to get back into the DRS.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I was about half a second behind Lawson and by staying close to him I was gaining half a second per lap.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, they asked me: \u2018When do we stop?\u2019 and I replied: \u2018When he stops!\u2019 because I didn\u2019t have that kind of pace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was basically an extension of Lawson and thanks to that, I finished in the points. We didn\u2019t have the pace or strength to go ahead and overtake him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alonso is up to 13th in the Drivers\u2019 Championship<\/a> on 14 points, equal with his team-mate Lance Stroll.<\/p>\n

Aston Martin is eighth in the Constructors\u2019 Championship with 28 points, one behind Haas and two ahead of Sauber.<\/p>\n

Read next: F1 urged to act after Colapinto targeted in online abuse over Piastri clash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Untelevised footage has emerged of Fernando Alonso running off the track when Lewis Hamilton was a \u201clittle bit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[1837,88064,4199,6319,707,4200,225,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-229389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-aston-martin","9":"tag-austrian-grand-prix","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-fernando-alonso","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-home-page","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114778201387565087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}