Fernando Alonso’s new rear wing excited in Baku: “We finally have it”

Fernando Alonso came to Baku with optimism. This comes from making 3 podiums in the first three races of the year, and although Red Bull continues to be a strong favorite to win the F1 Baku GP, the Spaniard is sure he will have more weapons this weekend of racing, where the new sprint format with a double classification has been unveiled. It is not for less. The green car will carry a long-awaited novelty of the Spaniard, a low-load rear wing that should allow him to reduce his disadvantage in the straight line of top speed compared to his direct rivals.

“Both the team and I will enter the race with optimism, there is a good atmosphere, we are looking forward to see what the result will be here. We are optimistic about the performance, because the car has done very well in the slow corners on previous circuits and here it’s a bit slow corner”, commented the Spaniard from Aston Martin on the previous one.

Aston Martin and Alonso’s new rear wing:

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“Finally we have a slightly smaller rear wing. Other teams have had it before, let’s see if with it we can match the top speed of the rest, which we were a bit weak at the beginning”he added. That ‘finally’ made clear the need that Fernando Alonso had for this piece to arrive as soon as possible.

Optimism for the characteristics of Baku

In the first two races of the year, Aston Martin was the second best car on the grid, and in Australia, it was very close to Mercedes. The Aston Martin is very strong in slow corners, in traction and also adapts very well to fast corners in Jeddah. But he lost to his rivals in the straights, and especially in the open DRS.

Due to its main characteristics, the Aston Martin should be very strong in the second sector, twistywith a very narrow part passing by the castle of the old town. But it also needed a higher top speed, and for this, Aston Martin had to reduce its resistance to development. They wanted to achieve this with this low-load wingespecially important in Baku because of the huge 2.1km straight Baku track.

This should allow him to be more competitive in the crucial qualifying on Friday (which will dictate the grid for Sunday) and Saturday (qualifying for the sprint race), and should allow him to be stronger in the melee of the race. , both for defense. yourself, as an attack on the straights. Alonso wants his fourth podium in four races and moves closer to the runner-up. He is only 9 points behind second overall, ‘Checo’ Pérez.