It’s not an easy start for Fernando Alonso in the 2024 F1 season at the Bahrain GP. He The Spaniard started sixth with Sakhir but the pace of the Aston Martin race did not allow him to challenge against McLaren, Mercedes, Ferrari and let’s not even talk about Red Bull. Finally then the ninth adding two points
Although the finish was far from the four leaders, Alonso’s face did not reflect the disappointment in the press corralito. This is just an expected performance.
“It’s a tough race. The strategy already told us that we are the fifth force after the four TOPs. So under normal conditions we would fight for ninth or tenth and it was achieved. “I will make predictions from now on,” he said in remarks collected by DAZN.
“I think I was 18 seconds behind the McLarens and the Saubers 28 seconds behind. We are half a minute into the race where there is no one. We tried a slightly different approach, stopping later than everyone else and hoping for a red flag or something that could benefit us. Nothing happened in the race either so we settled for ninth.”
A lot of things to do
The results in both free practice and qualifying point to a more optimistic result but as Alonso himself explained this is something that does not match the real performance of the AMR24.
“When you see that you can’t beat those in front you have to accept that your three or four tenths of the speed is missing, if the people behind allow it, try to make a different strategy, not optimal. First race of the year, confirm that there are four teams in front of us. We have started where we finished: behind McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull. We have to work. Yesterday’s return did not put us in a situation that is not true, now We saw the truth,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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