Fernando Alonso looks very tired. He fought hard to achieve two points which is not very tasteful because of the good results achieved by the Asturian this year with his Aston Martin, but it is a good prize at the wheel of a car that lacked the rhythm of the race and suffered throughout weekend. due to his lack of top speed on the straight, a key element at Monza, in the 2023 F1 Italian GP. The Asturian driver finished 9th. He was battling at times with Hamilton, who finished 6th, and wanted to take advantage of a 5-second penalty from the Englishman to grab the position with the fight for third place in the Drivers’ Championship in mind. However, he ended up getting stuck in a small train of DRS cars where he couldn’t catch up. The Spaniard knows that the characteristics of the Monza track are at odds with the strength of his car and this result must be isolated. At the next round in Singapore, things should be better after a long endurance race that he said was “the toughest of the year” physically.
“That was probably the hardest race and the most physical we have done so far. Because the truth is that today the car is very difficult to drive, with zero grip, and the truth is that we had less stress in Zandvoort even the rain came and everything, it seems incredible, what we have today”, commented the Asturian.
“In difficult races like this, you still have to score points, ninth. We take the two points. Unfortunately, Hamilton left us with the 5-second penalties he had and we lost by six points to him, which in the end is the only thing that matters to us. in the Drivers’ Championship, then in the Manufacturers we lost a lot today, but hey, we can’t do anything, we don’t have rhythm”, he added.
“We’ll see. The rivals change from weekend to weekend. In Zandvoort it was the Alpine that we were closest to, paradoxically. And here Ferrari, but hey, in Monza they always put everything what they have, new machines… so ” They’ve had their weekend. And even then they haven’t gotten too many points from us. Let’s see if we can get them back in Singapore”, he concluded when asked about his car’s performance for the rest of the course.
Source: La Verdad
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