A year ago, Sebastian Vettel the world was shocked by an unexpected announcement. When everyone is focused on what will happen to F1 Hungarian GP, the German driver created an Instagram account and announced that he was leaving F1. Aston Martin had a gap and Fernando Alonso I have accumulated a lot of ‘ugly’ Alpine about your future. The French team publicly expressed their doubts whether to keep the Spaniard despite his high level shown on the track, due to his age, or to promote the young talent from his academy, Oscar Piastri instead. The end of this story is well known: Alonso left Alpine because they did not want to offer him a contract for more years and Piastri surprised the French team in a legal dispute that ended with the Australian in McLaren. Alpine was left without the two riders it wanted.
For this reason, at the 2022 Hungarian GP, the Oviedo driver did not reject the option to sign for Aston Martin for 2023. He left the doors open. And a few days later, at the start of the summer break, Aston Martin’s new signing of Fernando Alonso was announced and Piastri’s contractual dispute between Alpine and McLaren began. Hungary was the trigger for everything, where in a few hours Vettel announced his retirement and Lawrence Stroll called Fernando.
So, French television with F1 rights, ‘Channel + France’, asked him about that and his “decision” to leave Alpine. Then came a nuance from Oviedo as a clear message and reminder to his former team.
“Last year was quite a stressful Grand Prix in terms of emotions, but yes, it was a good decision, a lucky decision and I’m happy I made it. It wasn’t really a choice, because I didn’t have any offer from Alpine.”commented the Spaniard.
“If I had an offer from Alpine at the beginning of the year I would have signed it, sure. But I only had one offer (Aston Martin) and I accepted it.”concluded Oviedo, as if reminding his ex that if he had taken care of her, he would not have changed partners.
Review all your team’s changes
In the run-up to the Hungarian GP, at the official FIA press conference, Fernando Alonso was also asked if he would change any of the team change choices he made throughout his career. The answer is clear: “I wouldn’t change anything and I don’t regret anything.”
“No one has a crystal ball to know how a team will perform next year,” said Alonso, who then began to review all his group changes.
“When I left Renault I joined McLaren and that season (2007) we fought for the title and competitively it was a good step, a good choice. Then I went to Ferrari. I don’t think any driver would refuse an offer from Ferrari to join the team. team and we fought for three titles in the 5 years I was there. Then I joined McLaren-Honda, which was an interesting project and it didn’t work out, ok, it can happen in the sport. And then I stopped F1 because I had so many things on my mind and so many challenges I wanted to try,” he said.
“It is a good moment in my career to test the endurance, the Dakar, the Indy500 and also have many victories and I am happy to return to F1 which I have always considered my family, to Alpine, Renault, and the final decision for the opinion of Everything is the worst, and this is the best of my career, and it shows you how difficult it is to choose a team,” he concluded, noting that the Aston Martin option, criticized by many at the beginning, became “the best.” of his sports career. With Aston Martin, he found himself in a surprising podium car and a project that gives him great enthusiasm, with which he shares the same ambition to win as soon as possible.
Source: La Verdad
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