Fernando Alonso reflected on "a very strange season" so far in the wake of his latest car issue at the Austrian Grand Prix.
The Spaniard was at the centre of a bizarre moment just before the start of Saturday's Sprint race, as all the mechanics rushed to the side of the track before the formation lap. It soon became clear Alonso was going nowhere, with his car still up in the air and tyre warmers wrapped around his wheels.
The engineers had been so preoccupied by trying to jump-start his ailing Alpine that they didn't have time to take those other, usually routine steps to get the car ready to move. To make matters worse, he didn't even start the race as the electrical fault proved terminal.
