Alonso trusts the FIA: “We want to compete fairly”

This is the theme of the moment. It was in Singapore a week ago, and it continues to be in Japan this weekend, even Max Verstappen have a good chance to be crowned champion in Suzuka this Sunday. Everyone is talking about the same thing: the alleged violation of red bull of the 2021 budget ceiling, something according to Mercedes helped those Milton Keynes to further develop his car to win last year’s title with Max and could be key to creating Red Bull’s winning car for this year. The FIA postponed the announcement of the cost report of the teams for 2021 for the next October 10 and, before the said publication happens, the pilots are talking about it. Fernando Alonso was one of those who pointed out this important issue in the press conference before the Japanese F1 GPshowing all his confidence in the decision made by the FIA ​​in relation to a very important issue for the present and future of this sport.

“My level of faith in the FIA? Very high, to be honest. As I have said several times, I have a lot of confidence in Mohammed (ben Sulayem, FIA President) and his team. I think there are still some things in the race weekend and the consistency (of the application of penalties) and other issues that we have dealt with race after race that we are improving. They are also willing to learn and improve, so maybe this will be very positive compared to the past.”

“Outside the race and outside the track, I have full confidence in what they are doing, the result next week on the cost cap and how the sport is moving in the future. I have no doubts about anything”, which shows of the same confidence in the FIA ​​that Vettel showed in his statements.

“It’s a difficult topic for the drivers, it’s not really relevant here and we trust our teams to really control everything they do. I think we all hope that the FIA ​​has the best control over all these things because we want to compete in a fair environment. Many aspects need to be examined. The budget limit is one thing, but there are many teams with different structures and need additional controls, which must be done efficiently,” added Fernando, pointing out the difficulty of the FIA’s review that all teams follow the of expenses, although rely on its tracking system.

It has no plans to replace the engine in Japan

Regarding this weekend’s race, Fernando Alonso indicated that Alpine will not change the engine that failed at Monza and Singapore, which forced him to abandon two races in a row, although he made it clear that “as soon as possible” he must penalized for propellant change. Everything points to Austin’s next race. The Oviedo man made sure that his problems with his power unit were different in the two previous races.

“We won’t know for sure until the end of the year, so we may have to introduce a power unit. I don’t think it will be this weekend, but soon.”

The Asturian reiterated the many reliability problems that have plagued him on this course, something that in Singapore he already said cost him a bit. “60 points” throughout the year, and made it clear that if they arrive in Japan behind McLaren in the fight for fourth place in the Constructors’ World Championship, it will be due to several failures with the durability of their car. Fernando hopes to have better luck in the last 5 rounds of the World Cup.