Alonso, on his Alpine farewell: “I try to enjoy every moment”

“Every day is like the last day, so I try to enjoy every moment with the team.”taught Fernando Alonso after playing on the first day of free practice of Abu Dhabi GPthe latter F1 Grand Prix of the 2022 seasonthat is, your last event at Alpine before heading to Aston Martin for 2023. The pilot already thanked his team for their work at a dinner a few weeks ago and now he wants to enjoy every detail of this last appointment. At the moment, the feelings on his Alpine are positive, because the blue car is positioned as the fourth best after Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari. Your partners Esteban Ocon He was 7th and Alonso was only 5 thousandths behind his teammate despite having the ‘handicap’ of not being able to drive in Free Practice 1 as he gave up his seat to young Jack Doohan.

“It’s the last Friday of the year and obviously I’ve had less practice time today than usual, after Jack (Doohan) took over in Free Practice 1. I got up to speed (in the car and track) straight away and got used to the car in the afternoon session and we finished our program without any problems,” said the Spaniard.

“However, the balance still needs a bit of work so that we have a comfortable car for Saturday in qualifying,” he added, hoping his car will continue to make strides ahead of Saturday’s qualifying, where again select for Q3. Fernando wants to finish in the points again and has a number of goals pending. The first, to help Alpine defend fourth place in the Constructors’ World Championship against McLaren. The second, for eighth place in the World Cup for his teammate Ocon, who is only 5 points away. It was worth it to be 7th on Sunday and Esteban didn’t score. But be careful, because for this, Alonso must first finish the race without further reliability problems with an engine that arrived with many kilometers accumulated.