Fe𓄧rnando Alonso considers himself fortunate to have avoided a “massive crash” after the brakes on his Aston Martin Formula 1 car failed in the Chine♉se Grand Prix.

Alonso was circulating in the mid🅘field at the start of lap four in Shanghai when the rear brake temperature suddenly🐎 shot up on the start/finish straight.

TV images captured smoke pouring out of the hobbled Aston Martin, while Alpine’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly even reported a brake fire as he passed the Spཧaniard o𝕴n track.

The Spaniard wasꦚ able to slow the car down and nurse it back to the pitlane where, after a precautionary stop, the Silverstone-based team decided to retire him from the racꦯe.

It marked Alonso’s second DNF in as many race�𒐪�s at the start of 2025, having crashed out the Australian GP just a week earlier.

But the 43-year-old said his appearance in the Chinese GP could have ended in muc𝐆h more dramatic circumstances had he suffered the brake iss𝕴ue at a more dangerous part of the track.

“The brakes appare♈ntly were really hot since the beginning of the race, and then by Lap 3 or Lap 4 I went on the brakes in Turn 1 and the pedal went to the bottom of the chassis, and that was super scary,” said the ๊Spaniard.

“Luckily Turn 1 is a corner that you just downshift and go into the corner. If that happens in Turn 14 or wherever I think it could be a massive crash because I would takeꦿ four or five cars in front of me out of the race.

“For an unlucky situation I think we were lucky ⛄today to [not]🅘 hit any car in front of us, and now let’s try to understand what happened and try to see the first chequered flag in Japan.”

Alonso’s teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll ꧂scored an under-t🐓he-radar sixth-place finish in Melbourne and followed that with a ninth-place result in Shanghai.

The 10 points the Canadian has scored so far has allowed Aston to grab seventh place in the championship, ahead of Sauber, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Racing Bulls and Alpine.

However, even as Aston’s focus remains on the new regulation i𒅌n 2026, Stroll admitted that the team needs to improve the AMR25 to sc🐼ore points consistently for the rest of the year.

“No, I think we have a lot to work on, for sure, if we want to finish in the points comfortably going forward.”