Fernando Alonso had the worst classification of the season at Australia with a Q3 to forget that left him in tenth position for Sunday’s race. On a circuit where overtaking is very difficult, getting a good result becomes difficult, but as the Asturian explains, the Aston Martin It doesn’t do anything now either.
At Albert Park, the sensations are no longer the same during free training as experienced in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia and in the classification thing did not improve. When it came time to set a good lap, the gust forced Alonso’s mistake, as he went wide in turn 6 and cut off any chance of setting a good time. On the second attempt he managed to complete the turn but the time was more than a second and a half slower than Verstappen, the ‘poleman’.
“They didn’t tell me much, but I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary on the last lap. Perhaps there is a tenth of some damage, but we suffered all weekend. We’re in Free Practice 3 between the eighth and tenth or something like that. It’s a less competitive weekend than Jeddah, but the race is this Sunday and we’ve seen some exciting racing in F2 and F3. We will try to save the weekend with some points. We have to go to the limit, I can be slower and stay out of Q3. Luckily someone escaped and the wall wasn’t close, but this is it We had a pretty critical car all weekend, “It’s not the most comfortable grand prix,” he explained to DAZN.
“Everything has become more problematic in terms of speed. And Q3 has not been perfect, I made a mistake in turn six on the first attempt and ended up on the gravel, and on the second attempt on the new tires I had no confidence.in. A complex Q3. Before, in Q1 and Q2 it could look better or worse depending on the new set of wheels you use”
The goal for the race
The Asturian is not very optimistic about achieving a good return but he is confident to fight in the points zone with good matches in Lewis Hamilton, starting behind him, Stroll and Tsunoda.
“There is a concern with the graining, we had a very high degradation in the first two races and we expect a difficult race. We didn’t go as fast as others this weekend, but we will try to get the points we deserve in fifth car, which is ninth and tenth. We’ll try to get past Tsunoda, whoever got through and that’s what we have to do”, he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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