Fernando Alonso rolled into Jerez with Aston Martin

Fernando Alonso He continues his preparations to reach the maximum at the beginning of the season of Formula 1 2023. The Asturian driver dedicated his winter only and exclusively to his physical preparation for the start of his new challenge in F1 with Aston Martin and he went ahead with the task to begin memorizing the buttons on the steering wheel and the procedures of his new equipment, as well as getting to know all the members of his new group, in a test of Pirelli Made of Abu Dhabi in November 2022. After intense physical work and a visit to the factory of Aston Martin in January to sit down and meet other board members of Silverstoneone more step is coming: this Tuesday, February 7, Fernando Alonso gave his first kilometer of 2023 in a Formula 1, the Aston Martin 2022, as part of a Pirelli wheel test conducted in Circuit of Jerez to collect data for the Italian firm’s creation of dry tires in 2024.

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By regulation, this year’s car cannot be driven beyond pre-season tests and the ‘filming day’ assigned to each team with a new car. It will come. Before this is the presentation of the new 2023 car on February 13. But for now, testing this Pirelli tire with the 2022 car will help Fernando Alonso regain his feelings in F1 after a few months of rest and continue his work conforming to the methods of the team, his way of working and its internal communication with the engineers from the vehicle.

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Pirelli’s test with experimental dry tires for 2024 will take place this Tuesday and this Wednesday. The driver rides with the experimental dry compound, without knowing the type of rubber from the Pirelli range he mounts with a 2022 car where the regulations are clear: parts that have not been used on the course are not testable, and therefore, Alonso cannot be tested. try new solutions that can be applied to the car of this course. In addition, Aston Martin has warned that its 2023 car will be a “revolution”, with “90% new parts”, so it is not important to try new things in a different single-seater concept than the one that will bring this. 2023.

Fernando Alonso will not drive again this Wednesday in the second day of the Pirelli tests. His partner Lance Stroll will do it in his place.

Pirelli is the one that marks the runs, work and mileage that the pilots must carry out to gather important data for the creation of future tires for the next year.

In this test there are also more cars on the track, because it participates Mercedes with its two drivers: Lewis Hamilton and George Russell. It should be remembered that Ferrari recently did a Pirelli test with wet tires for 2024 and that Mercedes and AlphaTauri also rolled at Paul Ricard.