Ferdinand “We had no luck with Max,” he said at the end of the race in Monaco.. But the truth is, the appearance of rain with 26 laps left could have changed the scenario for him and Aston Martin. With the first falls, the Spaniard stopped one lap before Verstappen. Slicks or intermediate tires? The decision was not easy. “I don’t know guys, some places have water but others are dry,” said Fernando. His team chose to mount the media, and when they returned to the track, the storm raged and ruined the strategy.
AThe start did not go well and Alonso finally had to return to the pits to catch up., there is no longer the option to attack Max who crosses the finish line by 27 seconds. Luckily, Fernando had a big lead over the third-placed Ocon and managed to hold his position despite the mistake in the tyre. The Spaniard had no complaints after getting out of the vehicle and stressed that “it’s easy to talk later” in such a situation, but not so much to understand immediately.
Regarding his exit strategy, he said, “It’s been tough, we chose to start hard, so we gave up a bit of the possibility of attacking in Turn 1 because of how short the road to there was. Max managed his mid tires very well and extended the first stint. So we didn’t have a chance.”
“Ultimately, the rain made things a little difficult and it wasn’t easy to drive in those conditions. There was no full power on the lap, the braking was extremely weak in Turns 5 and 10 and I was surprised that it was there. “There were no cars due to safety or the incident, so all drivers were there,” said Fernando. They did a great job keeping the vehicles on the road today.”We weren’t the fastest and I almost got off when it started to rain, good for a secondGet the car to the finish line, save the car, and second, because we didn’t have the pace we expected today.”
While in ‘corralito’ with the press they insisted on the failed double pit stop, Alonso was clear: “The entry could have been different from driving the intermediate races, yes. It would be connected to the pit outlets. It’s always easy to talk later, especially on the podium. It’s not that easy to bet this way, it gets easier the further you go. We wanted to secure second place,” he concluded.
In the championship key, Alonso is already 12 points behind a secondSergio Pérez: “In 2010 (with Ferrari) we weren’t the fastest and I was the leader in the last race in Abu Dhabi. The same thing happened in 2012. I don’t think about the World Cup but we are not going.” To forget. Let’s be as stable as possible, be accurate and see what happens”.
Without a doubt, nothing can overshadow the magnificent performance of the two-time Asturias champion: “It’s not a win, but it was a great race”Fernando said on the team radio. “Well, P1 next time,” the track engineer replied. It will be precisely in Barcelona at the 33rd edition of the Spanish Grand Prix.