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Twice Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso stated he was nonetheless feeling the results of a qualifying crash in Australia final month and anticipated to endure for months to return.

The Alpine driver had bandages on each wrists after Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix and instructed reporters they have been a consequence of his Melbourne accident.

“It’s still from Australia,” he stated, referring to a crash into the wall at Albert Park.

“Bones, ligaments, tendons, everything is a mess at the moment.

“I need two or three months and there is no surgery, nothing you can do. Just rest. Unfortunately, every two weeks I have to drive so I try to rest at home but it will take a few months,” added the 40-year-old.

Formula One has six extra races scheduled, divided into pairs of double-headers, earlier than the August break.

When it was jokingly urged that Alonso may hand his automotive to the Renault-owned staff’s Australian reserve driver Oscar Piastri, the Spaniard replied: “Yes, but we need the points.”

Alpine are sixth within the constructors’ championship however solely a degree behind Alfa Romeo and 19 adrift of McLaren after seven races with the highest three — Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes — manner forward.

Alonso completed seventh in Monaco, forward of Mercedes’ seven occasions world champion Lewis Hamilton who was unable to discover a well past on the slender avenue circuit regardless of having a quicker automotive and the Spaniard lapping nicely off the tempo.

Alonso stated his technique within the last stint had been to handle the tyres for 15 laps earlier than then pushing for the remaining 15 to the end.

“It was Hamilton’s problem,” he stated. “This is Monaco and I love to keep people behind.”

Ferrari have been left perplexed by F1’s choice to not sanction Red Bull pair Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez in the course of the Monaco GP, for perceived pit lane violations.

A protest went unheeded and left Mattia Binotto astounded, with Italian journalist Roberto Chinchero stating the shortage of consistency in decision-making as soon as extra.

“Both Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez touched the yellow line exiting the pit lane. The two Red Bull drivers have done a manoeuvre that in the past has been sanctioned,” he instructed Motorsport.com.

“The FIA had not even opened an investigation and only after the Ferrari complaint, the case was discussed.

“The decision is scandalous: the RB18 did not cross the line with all the tyres so there was no violation for the stewards. A judgment that contradicts previous sentences.”

One of the moments of the weekend when Sunday’s race lastly bought underway was Pierre Gasly managing to edge previous Daniel Ricciardo in unconventional vogue, surging previous him as they made the entry to Swimming Pool.

It was the necessity to take dangers which noticed Gasly swap tyres first and that paid off as he bought creative.

“It was pretty tight, but I was so much faster than these guys, I just needed to calm myself,” Gasly defined after the race.

“I’d caught them so quickly, and then after you are like, OK, I want to pass, but it’s like if the guy is defending well, suddenly you’ve got no space on the right, no space on the left.

“Then you have to be creative. That’s what I tried to do. At the end of the day, F1 drivers, we are kind of artists, we need to find always new ideas.

“I tried to come up with unusual places to overtake, and that worked out, so I’m pleased with that.”

Daniel Ricciardo continues to wrestle in his McLaren automotive considerably and staff boss Zak Brown lately acknowledged that the Australian had not lived as much as expectations up to now.

The feedback got here as a shock to Jensen Button, who highlighted the significance of guaranteeing drivers are in the suitable way of thinking come race day.

“Zak is his own man and I can’t change his thoughts and what he says, but I was surprised that he came out and said that,” Button stated on Sky Sports F1.

“Everyone with the team should be protecting these drivers.

“Formula 1 is a real mental game. They all have immense skill but you don’t perform if your head is not in the right place.

“I was surprised Zak came out and said he was not meeting expectations – we all know that. But when your Team Principal comes out and says that, it definitely hurts.

“I’m hoping they have talked since and they can just focus on getting the best out of Daniel and the team around him for the rest of the year. Then we’ll see where he ends up in the future.”

Sergio Perez is revelling in his weekend victory and factors out it was a giant deal for his space of the world too, in a sporting sense, changing into the primary Mexican to win the Monaco GP.

“Certainly, in terms of history of the sport, I’m a big fan of my sport,” he stated. “So, certainly knowing what it means to win a race like this.

“I mean, they’re all very important, but certainly this is very special. And it goes very, very high in the list for my country.

“I certainly feel like at the moment, I’m the only Mexican – or even Latin American – driver on the grid.

“So, it just shows how difficult it is for us – not saying that for European drivers, it’s easy – but it just shows how difficult it is for us to make it into the sport and to have successful career in this sport.

“It is quite hard, but I have to say I’m extremely proud of it.”

Ferrari started the race with a front-row shutout, as Leclerc began on pole in his residence race and Carlos Sainz lined up second. Leclerc’s misfortune in Monaco continued, nonetheless, as he got here fourth, although Sainz was in a position to retain second spot.

After Sunday’s race, Horner was interviewed by Slater as the pair stood subsequent to a trackside swimming pool, which the Red Bull staff principal pushed the Sky reporter into whereas sporting a smile.

The 24-year-old has spent his complete profession with within the Red Bull set-up, coming into the grid with Toro Rosso as a 17-year-old earlier than stepping as much as Christian Horner’s staff for the fifth race of the 2016 season.

Though the Dutchman can be 31 when the contract involves an finish, Verstappen has now urged that he’s eager to pursue different alternatives in motorsport and will take into account leaving F1, although admits he’s not sure what the long-term future holds.

Perez secured his first victory of the season in Monte Carlo, rising from third on the grid to win with a tremendous drive throughout a chaotic, incident-filled race.

Ferrari, Red Bull’s title rivals, had began the race with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz filling the entrance row however made a number of errors of technique, permitting Verstappen to increase his benefit over Leclerc within the drivers’ championship standings after ending third – one place forward of the Monegasque.

However Jos Verstappen, Max’s father who began 106 races in Formula 1, feels that the staff may have carried out extra to permit the defending champion to problem for victory in Monaco.

The 50-year-old thinks that Red Bull will want “every point” if his son is to carry off the problem of Leclerc and cling on to his title.

The race was delayed by greater than an hour on account of heavy rain showers in Monte Carlo, a choice that has since been criticised by Mercedes’ Hamilton.

The seven-time world champion urged that climate was not purpose sufficient for such a prolonged delay to proceedings getting below manner.

Norris, nonetheless, believes the suitable method was taken and the race couldn’t have gotten below manner on time.

Daniel Ricciardo’s time at McLaren F1 is “over”, in keeping with 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve, who believes that the staff are getting ready to maneuver on from the Australian.

Ricciardo has endured a troublesome and uncompetitive begin to the 2022 marketing campaign, sitting outdoors of the highest ten within the Drivers’ Championship standings.

The 32-year-old has scored solely eleven factors, 37 fewer than teammate Lando Norris, and once more completed outdoors of the factors on the Monaco Grand Prix for the fourth consecutive race.

And Villeneuve believes that Brown’s reference to potential exit mechanisms could also be dangerous information for Ricciardo.