168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso was praised for his attempt to block 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mercedes from🌜 gaining a point for the fastest lap at the F1 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix.

Ultimately, Alonso failed in his audacious bid and George Russell pocketed a bonus 𓄧poi༺nt for Mercedes at Imola.

The driver who records the fastest lap at an F1 grand prix - irrespective of their finishing position - banks one bonus point for the drivers’ standings and for their team in the const💙ructors’ championship.

A dreadful weekend for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aston Martin’s Alonso wꦺas nearly salvaged with a last-gasp attempt to thwart Mer🧔cedes.

Russell, who finished in P6, was on course to s🦄et the fastest lap.

Ted Kravitz reported for Sღky Sports from the Imola paddock: “Alonso, the cheeky guy that he ♛is, pitted with two laps remaining to try to steal the point away from Mercedes, for the fastest lap.

“Fernando put the soft tyre on. He wouldn’t have been awarded the p🧜oint.

“But he would have made sure tha💎t Mercedes didn’t get it!

“Considering Aston Ma♚rtin and Mercedes are next to each other in the constructors’ table at the moment, even though they are separated by 30 points.

“Fernando and Aston thought: ‘You never know what’s going to happen, we might end up in a constructors’ fight with Mercedes where one point is important, so let’s box, put a soft tyre on, nick it off them s♔o Mercedes don’t get it!’

“Which is just brillia🌜nt, it is brilliant, both from Fernando and Aston Martin…

“Unfortunately for Alonso he messed up his two laps where he had the chance to get the fast🔯ജest lap.

“The fastest lap remained with Russell.”

Alonso was restricted to ꦗ♚P19 at Imola after a weekend to forget.

He crashed during pra🥀ctice on Saturday and, although his car was fixed to take part in qualifying, his luck was not rebuilt.

Alonso was in the gravel during Q1 and fi🏅nished 20th, promoted one position by Logan Sa🍷rgeant’s deleted lap.

His weekend largely ruined already, Alonso sta♛rted the grand prix from the pi🍎tlane so that Aston Martin could carry out some late set-up changes.

The grand pri⭕x was used pred💎ominantly as an extended test session for him.

Aston Martin had brought upgrades to Imola.

Alonꦅso was asked🐷 afterwards about what he learned from the AMR24: “We need to wait and see all the data that we gathered today and ask the team what they saw [that was] different between the two cars.

“We opted to set-up different in my car and, yeah,✨ let’s see if we found a direction for the next few races.

“It was a tough weekend, obviously qualifying dictates ev๊erything here.

“It will be the same in Monaco, so we need to do that p🍌erfe🔯ct Saturday that obviously makes things easier for Sunday.”

Teammate Lance Stroll claimed points, after starting from 13th and ൲en💛ding in P9.

“We were hoping for a Safety Car and so we were staying out a veꦉry long time, and then at the end i♑t was fun to pass some guys,” Stroll said.

Stroll added about learning how to utilise the new upgrades: “I think so, I hope so. We’re not as competitive as we want to be right now, we’ve got to keep 𓆉push𒀰ing.”