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Fernando takes strong fifth place after thrilling and incident-packed British Grand Prix

BWT Alpine F1 Team’s Fernando Alonso claimed a well fought fifth place from today’s British Grand Prix in a race filled with drama from start to finish at a sold-out Silverstone. Esteban Ocon looked set to join Fernando in the points, but he was forced to retire from eighth place, 14 laps from the end with a suspected fuel pump failure.

Fernando’s 10 points today means the team closes the gap to fourth place in the Constructors’ Championship to six points.

A red flag after an incident at Turn 1 on the opening lap brought almost a one-hour delay to the scheduled 52-lap race. Esteban was caught up in the incident – involving a handful of cars including Guanyu Zhou, Alexander Albon and George Russell – with damage sustained to the front-right corner of his A522. Esteban did well to nurse the car home during the red flag period, which allowed the team to make the necessary repairs to his car during the delay.

After the restart, Fernando, on Mediums, pushed ahead to put pressure on the McLaren of Lando Norris in fifth, while Esteban, on Softs, edged towards the top ten and into points-scoring contention. By lap 11, Fernando held sixth and Esteban seventh. Esteban pitted for Hards on lap 22, while Fernando remained out aiming to undercut Norris ahead. He pitted on lap 33 for Hards before Esteban’s retirement with a suspected fuel pump issue on the old start-finish straight brought out the Safety Car.


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