#2792
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Alpine is lame on the straights without DRS
With the Alpha Tauri it is the other way around. Pierre Gasly was in the top 3 in the first two sectors with C4 tires. The Frenchman only lost feathers at the end of the lap. There he lost two tenths to Ferrari despite softer tires.
Aston Martin is a similar case to Mercedes. Vettel was out for fast laps on the final day. Hence the C5 tires. This makes the green car look good in a sector comparison. If you subtract the tire factor, Vettel has a time of 22.608 seconds in the first sector, 30.358 seconds in the second and 27.784 seconds in the third. That would correspond to a lap of 1:20.750 minutes. Although the technicians had to make compromises because of the pump problem on the straights, it was enough for a place in midfield. At least that gives reason for hope.
Alpine should actually be worried about the lap times. But in this case, the speed measurements tell a completely different story. Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso are by far the slowest cars on the home stretch at 300.3 and 294.4 km/h. This is not due to the new Renault engine, but to a problem with the DRS mechanism.
The Alpine pilots always drove with the rear wing closed. This also damaged the interim time in sector 1. Alonso was the slowest there with 23.066 seconds. In the middle sector, Alpine was already slightly uphill in seventh place, although they lost up to 15 km/h to the competition on the back straight.
The highlight of the A522 is the last sector. Alonso was third fastest with 27.323 seconds. Like Leclerc, he rode on medium tires and on his fastest lap he had already covered eleven laps in a row before a hydraulic fire stopped him. The Alpine obviously has the same qualities as the Ferrari in this area.
