After standing on the podium in the first three rounds of the season, Fernando Alonso The streak was interrupted last week in Azerbaijan, where he finished fourth, just eight-tenths behind Leclerc’s Ferrari. However, Asturia He remains third in the World Cup.He was surpassed only by the stubborn Red Bull and arrived in Miami with the ambition he has shown since his debut with Aston Martin in 2023. small distortion” is one of the strong points“He’s confident that his car and the warmth this weekend will be a natural ally.
“I think this track is similar to what we saw in Jeddah and Baku so maybe it won’t be too much of a surprise but “The temperatures we’re seeing here are somewhat unique,” he said. Alonso highlighted his arrival on the track, which nowadays reaches 50º on asphalt. Jeddah and Baku so it might not come as much of a surprise but the temperatures we see here are somewhat unique. The track was 60ºC on Wednesday,” he explained.
It seems obvious that if strong heat holds, high tire degradation favors Aston Martin’s AMR23“Yeah, that’s probably going to be the strong point of our car. So hopefully we can take advantage of that on Sunday if there aren’t many safety cars or it doesn’t rain or something else. We think so too, but we have to confirm it in free practice tomorrow”, to the two-time Spanish champion valued. Weather forecasts point to a 40% chance of precipitation for race day Sunday morning.
As a result, Alonso insisted on what he had already said after the Baku race. “With the exception of Red Bull, the ranking of the grid will change at each half depending on the features, but it will be a tenth up and down because There’s a lot of equality in the favorite group.. I’ve heard that Ferrari and Mercedes have done great things to Imola. There are also improvements planned and we will see them from time to time during the season. But occupying the position we are in is a gift for us, we did not expect that.”
“We run every Sunday without pressure and if we can continue to score more points from them, that’s good news. If we can’t because we haven’t been able to keep up with the progress the competitors are making, we will focus on the 2024 car.” .They already underestimated us and they are following us. We are growing as a team and we are in an unexpected position with a very fast car and we want to make the team faster in the areas we want. We’re not at the top level,” added Fernando.
“Without Red Bull, it would have been a very interesting fight between three or four cars separated by about two-tenths. Therefore, we can say that the new F1 rules will be successful. Maybe in a few years it will be like this with more stability in the rules, but then in 2026 everything could change again. This is Formula 1, it’s always been like that. Seven years Hamilton and Bottas, first and second. In the past, Vettel and Webber. And now Verstappen and Pérez. It’s in the nature of F1,” he thinks.
Regarding the changes that the FIA announced today in zones 1 and 2 of the DRS and the resurfacing of the Miami circuit, Alonso said: “With the new asphalt, the track will be different, we’ll see how it goes. DRS was cut and here was one of the circuits where it was easier to overtake.”