“Today was one of those days when everything went wrong.” This is how Fernando Alonso explained himself to the press present at the Enzo e Dino Ferrari Circuit in Imola, with them MD, after a day to forget in the Emilia-Romagna F1 GP where he had an accident in Free Practice 3 that They left him the car barely runs and is wrecked.
After that, Aston Martin mechanics worked heroically and against the clock to fix the car almost perfectly on time. They did it, but in Q1, someone jumped out of the Asturian’s car and at that moment the man from Oviedo lost control of his car. He left the track, went into the gravel at high speed. He was unable to continue due to damage to the bottom of his car. So he finished the classification in 19th place, without being able to verify the true potential of his car’s evolutions, the improvements that the Spaniard certainly made “feel better” and ” faster”, although perhaps they are not as large. a step like those from Ferrari or those presented by McLaren in Miami.
After that, the Asturian responded with a smile, accepting the mistake as his own, supporting his team in a difficult moment, lending his shoulder to his team and with a great gesture to his mechanic for fixing his car in time record.
“Starting in FP3, obviously, with a pretty bad accident, the mechanics did a great job to get everything ready for Q1 and then Q1. It was a combination of things, to be honest. We started on fuel throughout the session (Q1) to do some laps and practice, to prepare for some pit stops, I set the lap time at the start, when the car was heavy on fuel. And then, yes, when the car was lightening at the end and we put on the last set of tires, I had to deal with an unknown problem. They called me to the box, so it was a bit painful,” said the native of Oviedo.
“I feel sorry for the mechanics because they deserve better after the work they have done. But yes, one of those days when everything goes wrong,” he added.
Looking ahead to the race, the man from Oviedo knows that in Imola he doesn’t have many options to come back or think about points. Only a crazy race with rain and chaos can give him any chance. “The race? Nothing. Finish the race, go home and think about Monaco. It’s the second hardest circuit to overtake, only behind Monaco. be a race where you see little or nothing to overtake,” commented him in the written press and on television.
“Starting from the last row of the grid I think we will have a difficult race, but hey, it’s one of those weekends or one of those days when everything turns in different ways and you have to accept it,” said the Oviedo driver. , who did not rule out leaving the pit lane to change the settings on his car to make the race another ‘test’ in search of more understanding of the new components: “it could be an option, considering the points that I think are quite false.”
THE NEW PARTS: “THE CAR IS BETTER”
“The car was a bit faster this morning compared to yesterday before the accident, and the car feels good too. Maybe the first lap of Q1 was the first lap of the day for me on soft tires. And we’re full of gas, so I think there’s still a little bit of speed. The team will be the one to analyze the updates,” he argued, making it clear that in Friday’s free practice the green team was able to gather a lot of data by testing the old and new versions of the car.
Source: La Verdad
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