Alonso says Alpine made the 'wrong choices continuously' with its strategy at Suzuka, joking that 'my microphone maybe didn't work'. F1
, both of whom had little to lose at the rear of the field, were the first drivers to go for new tyres, on laps 18 and 20 respectively.
It was anticipated that there would be one more full lap after the first time the leader passed the flag after the three-hour mark. "Then we stopped too late for the second stop with six laps to the end, and I just finished in the same place that I was. I was asking to pit earlier on both occasions, but today my microphone maybe didn't work."Asked by Motorsport.com if he had to trust the team, he said:"We should have stopped 10, or 11 or 12 laps to go. As I said, I don't know what they were doing, and then we stopped six laps till the end. We lost an opportunity.
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