Mercedes He showed better race pace in Barcelona with his great package of improvements than he showed in Monaco, a complete ‘B’ car for the stars. hamilton got 2nd place and Russell, which started on the 12th, was 3rd. Worried? Answer Fernando Alonso between laughs: “It’s a race and on Canada we crush them”. Spanish GP of F1 2023 despite not being able to celebrate what would have been his 6th podium of the year in front of his fans. The man from Oviedo, despite clarifying a good step forward of Mercedes, assured the Spanish press present at the Circuit that he could fight for the podium or fourth place if he started on the front row, as in previous appointments. Don’t panic. He did not consider that what he saw in Circuit be the tonic waiting for you at the next appointments and remember that Aston Martin should bring improvements to Canada and Silverstone to fight against Mercedes and Ferrari.
LACK OF EVOLUTION
“It’s more, I think. We don’t have as much rhythm as the rest of Sunday, and on soft or hard we don’t have those tenths to keep up with Mercedes, but we’re a little bit ahead of Alpine, AlphaTauri. and a little bit of maybe a pair of Ferraris, because I think Stroll has maintained the difference with Carlos from the first stint, so there is definitely the same lack of rhythm compared to Red Bull, I think it remains, half a minute or 40 seconds we all went behind them in the races. And Mercedes can take a step forward and overtake us.”
IS FUN
“I’ll leave happy because the time trial was the Achilles heel of the whole weekend. Starting far you can go back, but up to a certain point and both Russell and ‘Checo’ are faster than us today and there’s not much to do. And then we save points. As for manufacturers, it’s true that Mercedes took some important points from us today, but we took points from Ferrari again, so I’m happy. And in Canada we will take more things, also at Silverstone, and I think it depends on who got the improvements. And as I say, in Canada… even today with a normal time we would have started on par in Hamilton and we’ll have a better chance.”
HARD RACE
“It hasn’t been an easy race. From the start, the degradation of the tires, we didn’t know if it would be two or three stops and in the end we ended up with two. I lacked rhythm, above all. . It’s normal” .
WALK. COULD HAPPEN?
“It’s difficult. But it’s the last 10 laps of the race and in the end it doesn’t matter to us whether it’s sixth and seventh or vice versa. Both points for the team and Lance drove the leading race. We’ you scored more points than at Ferrari, so for this part, happy.”
MANEUVER BY OCON, TOO TO THE LIMIT?
“No, no… the straight line was enough and nothing happened. We didn’t hold it this time (laughs) and everything is fine”.
THIS HAS TO HAPPEN
“Yes… but just yesterday if I did a normal time trial and there was a normal track (no water) we were in the front row and if you are in the front row, you go to the front end, you use less tires and third or we’re still doing fourth today. That’s what happened in the last few races. I think in Miami we weren’t ready to be on the podium but we qualified on the front row and that made the race easier. In Monaco, we didn’t have that top weekend either, but “If you qualify on the front row, you’re sure of the podium. So far we have saved a lot of podiums thanks to a good Saturday. And here, because we don’t have a good Saturday, very bad, the podium is complicated. But well, happy and calm” .
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Source: La Verdad
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