The big news coming from Formula 1 this week was Fernando Alonso’s decision to quit F1 at the end of this season. Alonso has spent the last 17 years competing on the F1 circuit and enjoyed his most successful seasons in 2005 and 2006, where he was ranked No. 1 after 7 wins in each of those years.
Recently, his McLaren team have struggled to compete with their rivals but Alonso showed in his victory at Le Mans that he is far from ready to leave motorsport completely. However, he is unhappy at what he refers to as a ‘lack of action’ on the track at the moment, with the results in F1 becoming too predictable.
Alonso – “The action is poor”
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— Fernando Alonso (@alo_oficial) August 14, 2018
He said: “I stopped because the action on the track in my opinion I feel is very poor. In fact, what we talk about more in F1, is off track. We talk about polemics. We talk about radio messages. We talk about all these things, and when we talk so many times about those things, it is a bad sign.”
Mercedes dominance
He certainly has a good point when you see that Mercedes have claimed the last four Constructors’ Championships and before that was a period dominated by Red Bull. F1 racing has become increasingly focused on the mechanics and technology and many spectators are losing interest because they know that Lewis Hamilton driving Mercedes is pretty much a cert to win over a season. You rarely have a race where a non-favourite wins or see a lesser-known name become more prominent through some unexpected results.
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So Alonso leaves F1 at a time where race results have become boringly predictable and it is an issue that the sport will struggle with if they do not try and shake it up a bit. Alonso hasn’t ruled out a return to F1 but he could do with a change at 36 years old after racing for the whole of his adult life.
