Fernando Alonso got here dwelling fifteenth in Sunday's Azerbaijan Grand Prix after qualifying Eleventh, which led the Aston Martin racer to slam his unhealthy luck over the 2025 Formulation 1 season. He stated sudden occurrences that shake up the sphere solely come alongside when the group is on type.
The Spaniard certified simply outdoors the highest 10 in Baku, forward of the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton and three positions away from team-mate Lance Stroll. Nonetheless, a false begin from McLaren's Oscar Piastri in entrance led Alonso to leap the gun as nicely, which noticed him lose locations off the road and decide up a five-second time penalty.
“In these moments each motion that's taking place in entrance of you, clearly generally you react and, sadly, I reacted to Oscar,” the 44-year-old defined after the race. “However yeah, I do not suppose that it did change my race in any respect. We have been at a really gradual tempo and the ultimate place I feel is precisely the identical.”
The gradual tempo of the Aston Martin AMR25 in Azerbaijan was attributed to the format of the Baku circuit, with Alonso claiming earlier within the weekend that the “good downforce and low drag” required to tie collectively a lap of the observe was “not our energy”.
Subsequently, if the Spaniard had any hope of shifting via the pack to make up for his race begin blunder, he needed to pray for a spate of retirements, crimson flags and security automobiles to rival the Baku qualifying session on Saturday. That didn't occur, which led Alonso to as soon as once more lament his unhealthy luck over the course of the 2025 season.
“Certain, like at all times, we've got the worst automotive and nothing occurs. No security automotive, no yellow flags, no reliability issues,” he stated. “It solely occurs once we are on the entrance. However that is the pattern of this yr, and we've got to take it.”
Fernando Alonso crashed within the season-opening Australian Grand Prix
Photograph by: Lubomir Asenov / Motorsport Photos
This echoed related complaints made by the double world champion earlier within the season. Alonso claimed the timing of the security automotive at Zandvoort was “unfortunate” at a circuit that he thought posed an “alternative” for the group. He additionally blamed his unhealthy luck for an absence of factors on the races at Imola and Monaco.
In truth, his Eleventh-place end at Imola led Alonso to profess over group radio that, “We're so unfortunate. All the pieces is incorrect for us this yr”.
This obvious unhealthy luck has left the Spaniard down on factors for the season, wallowing 14th within the standings with 32 championship factors to his title – two fewer than team-mate Stroll in Eleventh.
However simply how unfortunate has the Aston Martin racer actually been over the course of 2025? He's up to now picked up 4 DNFs, with technical points inflicting three of them: a brake failure in China, energy unit points in Monaco and suspension harm in Italy. In Australia, nonetheless, the skilled campaigner spun off in drying circumstances – initially blaming the crash on gravel on the observe. His team-mate, nonetheless, has suffered no retirements, however did sit out the Spanish Grand Prix as a consequence of a wrist harm.
Alonso was additionally caught out by the timing of the security automotive in Zandvoort, as he had already stopped for brand new rubber, and a digital security automotive in Imola, which gave his rivals an inexpensive cease forward and dropped him out of the factors. Comparable points befell Stroll, with the Canadian blaming race interruptions for an absence of factors at Imola and Spa.
For Alonso, these cases have largely arrived at tracks that he says are higher suited to the AMR25, which he believes has hampered his outcomes over the course of the 2025 season. Nonetheless, Formulation 1 nonetheless has seven races to go earlier than the top of the yr, and Alonso isn't counting his squad out at a few of these tracks simply but.
“We all know we're going to be the final automotive right here, final automotive in Las Vegas, final automotive in Mexico,” Alosno informed ESPN after the Azerbaijan GP. “So, out of the seven races left, we already know we'll be final in three of them. We attempt to get via these shortly with out damaging the automotive, avoiding harm or placing the group in hassle, and simply get via them quietly.”
Nonetheless, Singapore was highlighted as a observe which will show to supply happier searching grounds for Alonso, and the closing races in Qatar and Abu Dhabi offered a constructive finish to the 2024 season for the group in inexperienced. Perhaps there's nonetheless time for Alonso's luck to show.
