“It’s a good Friday for us and it’s good to be back in Australia.”, commented Fernando Alonso after the first day of free practice for the Australian GP of F1 2023. The Spaniard led the second session as he had the best time in the rain, although the times were not representative as there were still many rivals. directly for setting clean time. Earlier, in Free Practice 1, the Spaniard started on the right foot in fourth position. Red Bull, and especially Verstappen, are clear favourites, but for now, his AMR23 is back to leave good feelings, as it happened in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, where Oviedo even achieved two podium finish in the first two rounds. Now, he wants a third in a row.
“In FP1 we concentrated on a few test items and ran our program well. The afternoon session was obviously affected by the rain, so there’s more to do tomorrow”he commented. Teams were unable to perform long run simulations and few were able to set clean turns due to heavy traffic on the asphalt. Consequently, everyone will face FP3 having to take advantage of the remaining practice time before ‘qualification’ to draw more concrete conclusions about the settings and the wear and behavior of the tires.
“We need to learn more about the tires and the long speed racing car because there is not much time for now.”recalled the Spaniard in a statement from the Aston Martin team.
“So far the car seems to be behaving well. The forecast for tomorrow (Saturday) looks dry at the moment, and we will appreciate that because we have only experienced these conditions in the last two races.
Alonso knows that he will once again aspire to the podium in the dry, while in rainy conditions, everything is unknown because he does not know how his Aston Martin behaves in the wet and if it can be more or less competitive . Also, despite the fact that the Red Bulls are superior, in Australia anything can happen. Any touch, accident or ‘Safety Car’ could give him a unique chance to win if he can confirm that he is still the second best car on this track behind Red Bull.
Source: La Verdad
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