Alonso Ketiban Shit, Wrapped Sandwich Stopper Rear Brake And Failed To Finish In Bahrain

Fernando Alonso (Twitter @AlpineF1team)

JAKARTA - Fernando Alonos was unable to finish in the Bahrain Grand Prix in the 2021 Formula 1 opening series last Sunday. The cause is a sandwich wrap (sandwich). Why, how come?

The wrapping was found to clog the rear brakes of the two-time F1 world champion Alpine, who was forced to return to the garage on lap 32 after the team found the temperature of the car's brakes had jumped sharply.

It was not the start of the season that the Spaniard had hoped for, who returned to racing in F1 after two years out.

"After the second stop, the sandwich wrapper got stuck in the rear brake of Fernando's car which caused a high temperature and some damage to the braking system," said Alpine team boss Marcin Budkowski as quoted by Antara, Tuesday, March 30.

Before the fast food wrappers slowed down the racer, Alonso (39) secured his 9th starting position in qualifying with the team owned by Renault.

Another Alpine rider, Esteban Ocon, finished P13 after hopes of scoring points vanished following a collision with four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel who this year was driving an Aston Martin.

"Not a good start to the season for us because we had bad luck," said Budkowski.

However, he was quite relieved to see Alonso's positive results in qualifying.

"The first race was very unlucky to see how strong Alonso looks."