Abu Dhabi 2010: The error of Ferrari that denied Fernando Alonso a third title

In the review of the career of the Spanish, his memories more bitter. In Yas Marina circuit where you will say goodbye on Sunday, and wept with rage

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The Sunday that ended with Fernando Alonso missing out on a World that was theirs already began poorly for some special envoys to that last and final grand prix of 2010. Two of them almost do not arrive on time to the race by running out of gas... in the country of the gasoline. With sweats started a day written to tears in the history of the asturian, descabalgado in the final episode because of a strategic error that is in the history of Formula 1 and the black legend of Ferrari.

The team red shot themselves in the foot, specifically at the foot of his leading rider, the order to stop when not supposed to, when you require to dial in the car wrong. Shook the pulse of the leaders of a team that still drag that worth it. Only returned to be champions for a while in Interlagos 2012, in the last event of the season, again with Alonso stroking his long-awaited third crown. Then only the fortune of Sebastian Vettel prevented. The German will wonder life how it was possible that his Red Bull, flipped in against direction, from the front of the peloton, came out without a single blow.

In Abu Dhabi, two years before, they smiled at him the chance, but the clumsiness of Ferrari. So many fingers crossed at the Scuderia, both crepi il lupo responded those days prior (the Italian expression that closes the wish of good luck: "in bocca il lupo) and so much superstition is chewed it that they forgot the essential: to do things well on Sunday during the race. Prisoners of a panic attack, sent his pilot the wrong way. Most of the combinations giving glory to Alonso (with the fourth he was worth, if he won the test Vettel), after signing a final round of stellar in qualifying on Saturday. Was pulled out of the sleeve a few vital tenths that placed third on the grid. The lookout had his friend Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, couple of Red Bull's most outstanding arañarse between them, that of robbing the leadership of the Spanish ported to Abu Dhabi, the same track that you will see him this Sunday to say goodbye to F1.

he Had reached the ferrarista up there after a very intense season, in his debut in the team of Maranello. After waiting two years in Renault, his exile by the war with Hamilton at McLaren, he signed with the illusion of a child in 2010. At the end he wore the legendary red uniform, the dream of his life. A Alonso radiant was presented officially in the concentration alpina Madonna di Campiglio. The Bank Santander, the most important entity in the country, rolled over on landing at Ferrari and he responded starting in Bahrain with a victory. First race and doublet, with Massa second. The brazilian had to frenarle the team in Germany for Alonso to strengthen their leadership, already in July. In the press conference later, the british press took the debts of 2007. Questions of slashes fell off.

His car was getting worse throughout the year, while the Red Bull was growing up. Alonso endured the type in Singapore, with a victory of pure craft, and took off in Korea. "A title with Ferrari is what every rider aspires to", repeated the way to the grand final. The feast was prepared, the poster with his name to a street in the factory of Maranello also. All the champions with the Scuderia. It was enough to get fourth, healthy, and except for the car. But the damn strategy of Ferrari will drove it after the rear wing of the stubborn Petrov. A Renault, the brand that made him champion, it became his wall.

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