Fernando Alonso down after Italian GP suspension failure: “We’ll wait for the next one”

Fernando Alonso was understandably frustrated after he was forced to retire from the 2025 Italian Grand Prix when a suspension failure cost him valuable points. Following his DNF, he reflected on his unlucky 2025 season.

The two-time champion was running in seventh position when disaster struck on lap 25. His AMR25 suffered a front-right suspension failure as it ran over the exit kerb of the Ascari chicane. He limped his car back to the pits, where it was retired. 

Speaking after his race was cut short, the Spaniard confirmed the failure.

“Yes, it seems that the suspension gave way and, well, we had to retire the car,” he told DAZN before venting his frustration. 

“We were seventh, I don’t think many cars had to overtake us, we were as fast or faster than them, so yes, six points here,” Alonso explained as he looked back at his difficult year. “Eight in Monaco when we were sixth and broke the engine there, today when we were seventh we broke the suspension, so it’s dozens of points that bad luck is taking away from us.

“We overtook one car at the start, we overtook one car at the pitstop, in the pits, and we were keeping a group behind us, I think with a difficult weekend, so for our part I think we executed the weekend one hundred per cent, and luck again, or a breakdown, deprived us of points, but we’ll have to keep trying.”

When questioned about whether he felt something wrong with the car before the issue reared its head, Alonso couldn’t answer as he questioned how a kerb they were hitting all weekend suddenly caused the damage.

Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin Racing

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“It’s a kerb that we were hitting all weekend and that we continued to hit, the laps we’re seeing now, everyone continues to hit that kerb,” he said. 

This is his fifth DNF of the season, continuing a pattern of bad luck and mechanical failures that have consistently stopped Alonso from scoring points despite qualifying well.

“We don’t have any aspirations this year, other than to fight for the constructors’ championship and try to help the team finish as high as possible. But well, on merit, I think we should have about 20 points more than we have, so if we haven’t achieved that, it’s sometimes been because of our own mistakes, other times because of bad luck, and at the end of the year, we’ll finish where we have to finish.

“But other than that, there’s nothing negative or positive to take away from it. We try to do our job perfectly every weekend, and as we did this weekend, I would say, with a spectacular qualifying session and a very good first 30 laps of the race, and from there we’ll wait for the next one.”

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