He started the course smiling, raising his hands over the podium every weekend. He scored 6 out of a possible 8 in a dream start to the championship. And the prospects are good, very good. The team’s room for improvement is huge in a new car. But Aston Martin never lied. He always reiterated that his main challenge must be to keep up with the pace of car development against big teams with big factories running at maximum capacity for years. Fewer improvements came and those that hit the track did not work as expected. And his rivals improved. Until now.
It’s not just Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes that have made big strides. In these final events, everyone raised the bar Aston Martin, at least for one lap, suffered again in Mexico. The car showed great race pace in Austin, but Fernando Alonso found himself at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez with the AMR23 too hard to drive, too nervous, where it is very easy to make a mistake and lose control of the vehicle. This happened to him in Free Practice with a spin on fast links. And in Q1, it happened again. He managed to get into Q2 and finish 13th. But he couldn’t get past Q3 in an increasingly even and unpredictable peloton.
At the end of the classification, Fernando Alonso highlighted the difficulties he experienced throughout the weekend.
“The truth is, it’s difficult. We were pretty slow all weekend, in all the sessions we had, so the time trial was not a surprise to suffer and fall behind. Yesterday we went around high speed corners. Now we circled the first sector again… the car was always on the knife edge of losing it. So we have a few complications.”commented on ‘DAZN F1’. “And well, we have to suffer and we have to understand to return to our best level, which is logically not what we are showing now”he added, without further criticism and thinking only of helping the team to get out of this delicate situation, especially in view of the creation of the 2024 car.
More “optimistic” for the race
As for his race options this Sunday, the Spaniard is waiting to see if he can make up some places to get back into the points. “We’ll see. It’s going to be a tough race because of the traffic we’re going to face and it’s going to be hard to get close to the cars in frontbecause we’re all going to have a little temperature problems in Mexico this Sunday, so we’ll see what we can do. I’m always optimistic. We started from the pit lane in Austin and went into the points. And this Sunday, starting the 13th, hopefully it will be easier,” Asturian ending.
Source: La Verdad
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