An excellent Alpine, even on Friday in Abu Dhabi. After the podium in Losail and the close one in Jeddah, the French team even finished second in PL2. Thanks to Esteban Or with, who has taken off the whim of beating a Mercedes and two Red Bulls, including that of Max Verstappen. A solid day also for Fernando Alonso, sixth in FP1 and 11th in the afternoon (with a time canceled).
“It was a pretty productive Friday, we learned about the new Abu Dhabi layout, which turned out to be quite challenging in many respects. In FP1 I risked a lot of having an accident like Kimi Raikkonen’s, you have to be careful to push to the limit. Some of the new parts of the track are quite complicated, it is important to continue to have the rhythm in these corners“Said Ocon. “Some of the areas of the track with the new asphalt are interesting and it will be important to understand how the tires behave. So far, we have both cars in the top ten, which is good. This is the goal for tomorrow. It’s always good to be in the top positions and we finished second today, it sounds very good. Let’s stay realistic, however, and we will continue to work hard“.
Fernando Alonso: “It was a good Friday for us and I enjoyed the track changes. It is the third consecutive weekend that we discover a new circuit on Friday, which means we can play a little and try different lines to find the lap time. We optimized our track time today in both sessions and my fastest time was canceled in FP2, so we have potential to exploit. We still need to fine-tune some things on the setup, I think it was a good day for us but that tomorrow we can have even more fun“.
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