Fernando Alonso He enjoyed the speed of his Aston Martin in Qatar after the sprint race, where is 8th (9th on track but gained position due to a Leclerc penalty). The Asturian, however, made it clear that he had to go out with the soft tire to discard that tire for this Sunday’s race, ahead of Sunday’s event, where he will start 4th and will look for a good Top-5. For that long race, the FIA will have to decide whether to impose the obligation to go to 3 stops and make a maximum of 20 laps on each compound for safety reasons. All this, in response to the tire mess that occurred this Saturday in Lusail.
On this track, which was designed for MotoGP, the FIA and Pirelli saw that the tires suffered a lot when riding the triangular curves, which were designed to prevent MotoGP from crossing the track’s limits. This forced a change to the schedule for the entire day as track workers had to narrow the layout to prevent the F1 cars from hitting the curbs. Because of this, Fernando became critical.
“Without so many ‘safety cars’ I think we’d be overtaking the Ferraris, with the tires going flat. But hey, all those ‘Safety Cars’ come in handy at the end to add some points. But the real race is tomorrow,” Alonso made some remarkable comments, as Sainz believed that all the cars with soft rubber (like Alonso) would suffer in the final laps if the two safety cars did not come out.
“Adding three, two or one point now doesn’t change much. And It’s like we don’t know how many mandatory stops we will make tomorrowwe had to save tires and We chose to save the medium tire because we don’t trust the soft. So we had to throw out one of the two races and we threw out today’s race.”Alonso commented on ‘DAZN F1’.
“It’s never nice not to include the pilots in these kinds of decisions. But we’ll see. They’ll cut the tires again and decide how many stops we’ll go tomorrow. “Things that shouldn’t happen in F1, but I prefer not to speak,” he added biting his tongue.
“I am very optimistic for the race”
“I am very optimistic. The car has always been among the top 3 or 4 in each session,” Alonso said of his expectations for Sunday’s race.
“Now in the sprint race, without the safety cars we would have finished fourth or fifth again… and coming fourth, I hope our Sunday will be good. The McLarens will start 6th and 10th and will surely catch us at some point in the race. But we will try to fight to finish in the top 5 and fight for some good points tomorrow”he concluded, knowing that his main goal must be to fight with the McLarens to defend fourth place in the Constructors’ World Championship currently held by Aston Martin.
The McLarens better run in the latter stages of the race on all sorts of tracks will mean that Fernando will have to defend that position tooth and nail, as Lance Stroll will start far, far behind.
Source: La Verdad
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