Fernando Alonso In the end he didn’t have enough cars to fight everyone Singapore, despite the fact that on paper this circuit should fit the green car like a glove. A surprising one Ferrariwith the Carlos Sainz using the pole and Leclerc 3rd, here he overtook the car of Silverstonebut he also did it at one time Mercedes of Russell (2nd) and hamilton (5th), the McLaren of Norris (4th) and a haas of Magnussen (6th) which should be diluted in the race. Aston Martin and Alonso’s race is expected to be very fast, as it was one of the best in Friday’s long run simulation. However, as this is a track where it is very difficult to overtake, aiming for the podium from 7th place seems like an impossible mission. but, Fernando He focused on a more realistic objective thinking about the overall World Championship of drivers: he wanted to fight for the position with Hamilton, who is only 6 points behind Alonso in the fight for the third position in the World Championship.
If the race had ended like this, Hamilton would have scored 10 points and Alonso, 7th, would have been 6th, leaving the Englishman just 2 points behind Fernando. For this reason, the man from Oviedo made it his priority to fight the Englishman.
“We are doing well during the year and we have Hamilton right in front of us on the grid, who is right behind us in the championship and that is my priority objective: to cover Hamilton, or stay in front of him or if I finish behind, not lose many points. (regarding Hamilton),” said the man from Oviedo.
HE CAN’T DO ANYTHING AND THIS IS WHAT HE SAID TO HIS ENGINEER
“I took out a little more than what was in the car, maybe (laughs). Because the truth is that we suffered today. In Free Practice 3 we were not comfortable and we made some changes to the car for qualifying and everything improved. But I’m very happy to be back. I just saw my engineer and I said to him: ‘if you leave me here all night wandering, I don’t think I’ll do it again.’ The position is what it is (7th), and we have to accept it, that we are not as strong as other teams, but I am very happy with the return and I am looking forward to starting tomorrow and seeing what we can get. ”
THE DAY RED BULL PLAYS, ASTON MARTIN IS NOT
“Red Bull, it’s like they’re going to spit this weekend, it’s like we’re not the ones to fish after all the years behind them, we’re not there in the race they lost. to take advantage of it. I have said many times, that you should be there. It just so happened that we weren’t here this weekend. But it’s like the Tour de France, there are 22 races, not just one.
Source: La Verdad
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