WATCH: Alonso shows ninja-like reflexes to avoid a massive crash with Bottas at the Mexican GP

It was a chaotic start to the Mexican GP indeed, with Valtteri Bottas and Daniel Ricciardo causing a massive chain reaction; Both Mick Schumacher and Yuki Tsunoda had to end the race after trying to evade Bottas’ Mercedes together with Esteban Ocon.

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The W12 landed just a few meters from Turn 2 in the opposite direction. And Fernando Alonso, who was surrounded by a load of cars at the time, could only see smoke. And it almost looked as if the Spaniard was going to collide with Bottas.

But maybe we underestimated Alonso’s reflexes a little. At the last moment, the Alpine driver managed an amazing evasive action to avoid a bad collision with the Mercedes.

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And of course, the entire F1 fandom was in awe of the way Alonso made his way through the rather blurry corners. Not only was Bottas in the middle of the road, but there was a lot of debris all over the track, possibly from Ricciardo’s front wing.

Twitter reacts to the overwhelming action by Fernando Alonso

This is exactly what Alonso’s incredible racing talent shows. If it had been another driver instead of Alonso, they would have a small chance of avoiding an incident like the Spaniard. And, well, F1 fans have gone nuts on Twitter and many have praised Alonso’s efforts.

Here are some of the tweets.

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Can Alonso score some points from the Mexican GP?

Mexico has treated Alonso a little too harshly in the past, and it was similar this year too. However, the chaos on lap 1 somehow helped the Alpine pilot to sneak into P9 on lap 20.

Furthermore, it looks like, despite the difficulties the car endured all weekend, Alonso is handling the conditions reasonably well and is on the way to scooping his only second point at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.

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But of course there is still a long way to go in the race and Alpine will have to make decent pit stops to keep Alonso’s hopes of scoring points alive. So can the 2-time world champion come home in the top 10? We’ll know soon enough.

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