Fernando Alonso, in the press conference before the British GP, referred to the controversy over the limits of the track in the last Austrian GP and the protest of his team. The Asturian pilot wants to clarify that, in the same way that in Monaco the pilots do not seek to play with the limits in order not to hit the wall, in Austria, if they do not want to be penalized, they must stay within the line and not look of advantage within those limits. “It’s possible,” said the man from Oviedo, noting that Fernando, Stroll and 8 other pilots were the same.
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“I didn’t pay too much attention. We didn’t want to fight with any particular driver or team. It was just some common sense. The team saw 3 laps that were not allowed on the page and it’s not something you have to judge. And when the team has so many canceled laps, they realize that the penalties were not applied. So the team basically goes to page 3 of Race Direction vs. Race Direction for not applying penalties. This is nothing against any driver or team. This is a normal thing to do.”
“We didn’t look at every lap and we didn’t look at whether the drivers went an inch over the line. We just saw that 103 laps were canceled and the penalties haven’t been applied. The team is pushing everything, 360 degrees, but it’s not like the team is trying to explore a gray area, it’s a very common sense thing, easier than another protest.”
THEY MAY BE RESPECTED
“Lance and I, along with eight other drivers, did not exceed the limits of the rules. It’s simple. If you stay inside the track, you have no penalty. Like 10 pilots there is no penalty. This is not drama. It is possible to do this. In Monaco you don’t want to get too close to the wall or you will fall and not finish the Race. And in Singapore. And in Austria, apart from the 10 drivers who did not exceed the limit, the rest lost seconds at the end. It’s part of the game.”
THE ASTON MARTIN PROTEST
“There were 10 drivers who didn’t break the track limits. That is the starting point. Because the track limits, Aston Martin, protests, sanctions, no sanctions… it all works, if you don’t break the track limits and if you skip them you will also fall into the trap.
RHYTHM
In Austria we had a worse speed than in Montreal. Also in Spain. This is something we want to understand and everyone wants to understand. In Barcelona, Mercedes was clearly the second fastest team and they challenged Red Bull, they were closer. In Cañada it was Aston Martin, as the second force, and we challenged Max (Verstappen) in some ways. And in Austria it is Ferrari. The results of the last three races were different between Mercedes, Ferrari and Aston, and we need to understand this to avoid a bad weekend. But right now we don’t have a clear answer. I think it’s because of the characteristics of the track, it’s something we have to continue studying”.
PREDICTION OF SILVERSTONE
“There is no concrete answer to what happened in Austria and in Silverstone we don’t have a clear prediction if it will be like Canada or Austria or Barcelona, that we suffer more. But that’s how it happens every weekend, every Thursday . We will try to play guessers every Thursday, you on your side and us on the answers, trying to guess between Ferrari, Mercedes and Aston Martin who will have a slight advantage this weekend. But I have said this several times on the course it. To put Aston Martin, Ferrari and Mercedes in the same sentence and fight to see the team doing the best seems incredible.
VERSTAPPEN CAN WIN IT ALL
“Verstappen and Red Bull can win every race. As for a weak point … it could be reliability. They haven’t had any big problems so far. Checo had problems at the Australian weekend and ? Max in Q2 in Jeddah. Those are your two problems. If the Jeddah change problem comes in a Race where you’re Second or Third, the Window of being able to win opens. And that’s a small hope that other teams have, and that although they can win all the races, by pure statistics it’s hard to see a car win 22 races in a row. Mercedes didn’t do it in this era that dominated, nor Ferrari on its good courses. Hopefully that opportunity comes out and it’s with Aston Martin up top one of the weekends. Because if it comes out, for example, in Austria, it would be Leclerc’s turn in that case.”
Source: La Verdad
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