The last Formula 1 grand prix of this season have not gone well at all for Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin, a scenario that has been repeated in Las Vegas. The Asturian driver has finished seventeenth in a ranking in which he encountered traffic on his second attempt at Q1.
“In the first lap there is little grip and everyone is testing, they don’t have to risk anything. They know they have plenty of car, like we had last year; we did Q1 a little to avoid crashing and in the Q3 We were trying to take risks to get the pole. Now, for us, Q1 is ours pole and we have to risk everything, so in that first lap, when you get fifth, sixth or eighth, it’s because the others are still a little off,” he pointed out. DAZN at the end of the classification.
In this sense, the Asturian stressed that they have been “not very competitive” for months and that this will also be the case “in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.” “I’m already saying it. We have to stay positive, “continue trying things for the team and wait until March of next year to be in better condition,” he said.
“Today we are 17th and 20th, more or less the position we expected. There were a couple of incidents ahead, a yellow flag, but even if I had progressed in this Q1, I think I would have finished 14th or 15th in Q2 anyway. And tomorrow we would return to the position we deserve. Hopefully it will be a little higher than 17th, but we have a complicated race here, in Qatar and in Abu Dhabi,” he warned.
Finally, Alonso also explained that it was very difficult to get the tires up to temperature. “It was difficult, but we were also slow all weekend. We have four or five Grands Prix, being either the last team or, together with Sauber, the ninth team,” concluded the two-time world champion.
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