McLaren from pole, Alonso is nervous

YEONGAM – Nervous, with mood swings not justified by the fact that Massa for the second time in a row (the fourth in 2011) beat him in qualifying. Unpleasant, as usually Alonso is not, fierce on the track in seeking victory, but always polite in the ways out and “politically correct” in the statements. Different, so it seemed in the Korean weekend, a symptom of a certain anxiety, the desire to clear (next year) the detachment from Red Bull and now also McLaren, mixed however with the fear of not making it, the worry of passing another year from fifth place on Saturday. Friday Alonso responded spicily to the question about the effects of the new wing (basis for the development of the future machine), “ask the engineers”, and did not dissolve Saturday on the same subject, “I don’t understand what the advantages or not of our aerodynamic appendix may be of interest to the public”, forgetting that the current Ferrari is out of the world games and that inevitably curiosity can only move on to the future, but also making sure that it was not particularly struck by this new weapon. A strange malaise, on which perhaps the annoyance of a McLaren that has completed (albeit belatedly) the comeback on Red Bull plays, while Ferrari has always remained distant. Alonso would prefer silence and say that in McLaren he was used to doing so, working under cover, while Ferrari has the eyes of all on him, ready to understand that the new fund for 2012 (used at Spa and Suzuka) has already been set aside and the front wing will be revised. Medicine can only be one: turning his uncertainties into certainties. To find the smile again.

(16 October 2011)