After his sensational performance in pole position challenge at the Monaco Grand Prix, where he forced Verstappen to push the limits to surpass him. Fernando Alonso Ha had a disappointment inside Barcelona Track. The Asturias driver didn’t make many mistakes and paid a heavy price for his exit from the track at the start of Q1 by damaging the floor of his Aston Martin AMR23, compromising his performance. ninth place on the grid. He will start eighth due to his sentence against Gasly.
[Clasificación del Mundial de Fórmula 1]
Seeing the end of his dream of taking home 33rd place this Sunday and even struggling to secure his sixth podium of the season, Alonso admitted his bad day: “Finally we had a worse Saturday than anything else for me.. I think I put a wheel on the wet side because the car lost its way in the last corner and that was costly, because we damaged the floor and lost performance throughout the entire qualifying session,” explained Fernando.
“It hurts a little bit more because it’s in the starting lap, it’s okay in the fast lap but it was in the warm-up lap.” We didn’t have a good Saturday, let’s see if we can have a better Sunday tomorrow?”added.
The whole performance of his car this weekend allows him to be as positive as possible: “I’m optimistic because I think we’ve lost our performance on the ground and I made another mistake at Turn 10 in this last lap of Q3. Alonso went a bit into the wet part and I think it’s a 1:12. I was going to be second with honors,” he said.
[Calenario de la temporada de la Fórmula 1]
“If I were to fight for the first row with the damaged car, I think we have a very good rhythm for tomorrow. Alonso finished, recognizing that he had to “have trouble” to desire more this Sunday, and that it was clearly a race in the water: “Starting from the back, the more chaos there is in the race, the more the same thing The fishing in the river is messy, so we’ll be happy if it rains tomorrow.” “.