Alonso makes heart-breaking admission as bad luck swept Imola result away

19:11, 20 May

Updated: 20:03, 20 May

byNorberto Mujica

Fernando Alonso acknowledges the bad luck - and the absence of good luck - that not only marred his Imola Grand Prix last Sunday, but also his F1 career.

"I'm the unluckiest **** driver in the world," was Fernando Alonso's assessment of his race at Imola to race engineer Andrew Vizzard as the Safety Car was called into the track to recover Andrea Kimi Antonelli's stricken Mercedes W16.

The fact that it was a VSC or a Safety Car changed nothing for Alonso and Aston Martin's hopes, the Spaniard believes.

"It doesn't change [anything] for us. It's good it was a recovered vehicle on track and there were marshals pushing the car. So it has to be a virtual or a safety car," said Alonso to media including GPblog after the tough race on Italian soil.

"It was just the wrong time, the wrong moment for us and at the wrong place," noted Alonso.

Fernando Alonso being overtaken by Carlos Sainz at the Imola Grand Prix

Alonso's Imola race, like his F1 career, was on the 'wrong side of luck'

When asked about his gutting communiction to his race engineer, the Spaniard delved further in the matter, and how being on the 'bad part' of luck shaped not only his Imola Grand Prix, but also his F1 career.

"I don't know, I think today, the whole season has been incredible. If I look back, Australia, I felt strong, I had fire on the brakes when I was P11 at the start and then there were three cars disqualified back then [in China]."

"In Miami we didn't stop for dry tyres. Today we have finally a strong car that we can score points on merit for the first time. There is this virtual safety car. It was not a virtual safety car when we were P12, P13 in all the seven races."

"In general, as you know, my career has been always on the bad part and people that they had a very average weekend, they're still top five."