in his words Fernando AlonsoSilverstone track “across the road” from headquarters aston martin. Taking advantage of F1’s visit to the circuit this weekend, the Asturian driver wanted to see the modern facilities that Lawrence Stroll’s team had inaugurated. Inclusion of the two-time Spanish champion, The boost the British team has never seenstruggling for the podium every weekend from seventh place on the grid in just a few months and dreaming of being 33rd.
“I’ve been to the New Technology Campus and it’s very impressive. It’s a true statement of intent for the team’s future,” said Alonso, facing the tenth race of the calendar, the British GP. third position Drivers World CupAfter the Red Bull duo, their team is just three points away from a ‘big’ team like Mercedes (175 versus 178).
“I’m excited to see what we can do against the English fans this weekend,” said Fernando. minimize performance degradation It moved up to fifth after the AMR23 occupied sixth place in Austria last Sunday and Aston Martin’s appeal to the FIA to impose track limit sanctions on multiple drivers was successful. “It was a tough weekend for us in mixed weather conditions and in the sprint format, but we got good scores in the end.”
As a result, Alonso made it clear after achieving six podiums in a chain since the start of the World Cup: Not satisfied with Aston Martin’s ups and downs. “In Austria, we had worse pace than Montreal. Also in Spain. That’s something we want to understand. In Barcelona, Mercedes were clearly the second fastest team and they challenged Red Bull, they were closer. In Canada Aston Martin was the second force to challenge Max and it was Ferrari in Austria.The last three races were different between Mercedes, Ferrari and Aston Martin and we need to understand that. avoid bad weekends. “But at the moment we don’t have a clear answer, perhaps due to the characteristics of the track.”
“We will try to play fortune tellers every Thursday, guess Ferrari, Mercedes and Aston Martin will have some advantage this weekend. But I’ve already said it several times: Put Aston Martin in the same sentence, ferrari and Mercedes looks totally awesome for us,” he added.
General meeting, impossible? by Red Bull
“Verstappen and Red Bull they can win all the races. As for a weak point, it could be reliability, although they haven’t had any major issues so far. Checo took them in Australia and Max in Q2 Jeddah. If it happens in the race… that is the hope of other teams. Even if they win every race, it’s hard to see a car win 22 races in a row based on pure statistics. Mercedes didn’t do that during their dominance, and neither did Ferrari. I hope that opportunity arises and Aston Martin is at the top”, predicted Fernando optimistically
Asturian took charge of the debate over the track boundaries and congratulated his team for always being careful to take advantage of any doubts in the rules: “When Aston Martin protested, they didn’t want to fight any driver on concrete or equipment. When the team saw so many laps cancelled, penalties weren’t enforced. We didn’t look at every lap and see if the drivers crossed the line an inch. 103 laps canceled and penalties not applied. The team is pushing everything 360 degrees, but the team wasn’t trying to explore a gray area, it was very common sense.”