Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin They had a day to forget on Saturday at F1 Emilia-Romagna GP 2024. In a weekend where the green car arrived full of evolutions, with many new parts to try and understand to improve the performance of the car, everything went wrong from Free Practice 3, where Fernando crashed on the wall when Rivazza after losing the rear part of his car.
“Today was one of those days when everything went wrong”he assured Fernando Alonso after qualifying, and that failure in Free Practice 3 would drag him into a ‘qualifying’ where he would finish 19th. He condemned her. The car was badly damaged and Aston Martin had to do a titanic job with its mechanics to almost completely assemble the car in 2 hours and 15 minutes. An atrocity. They got it Alonso He exited the track for qualifying after he had been running for several minutes. But there, again, the Asturian went to the gravel, surprisingly, after a piece of his car came loose.
The easiest thing for any driver in that situation is to criticize the handling of the car, to say that the car does not behave as he wants and that it is very difficult to drive, nervous and poorly adapted to the characteristics of the car. . Imola. But it is the opposite. Fernando came out of the international media corralito smiling, accepting what happened, and above all, apologizing to his mechanic for the great effort they made to prepare his car for the ‘qualy’.
“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. So he said mea culpa instead of throwing balls, support his team.
Alonso defended his team
Fernando Alonso wants to defend his team in a difficult moment, to give a hand to his team. He was asked about developments on a weekend where Aston Martin couldn’t find the track time they thought their new parts would give them. While Ferrari, McLaren and other teams continue to develop as they introduce new features, Aston Martin seems more stagnant, still not making a big step forward.
Despite this, Fernando Alonso had good words about the news.
According to Alonso, the car “feels better” than on Friday and is “faster and made it clear that it will go to Q2 without problems if it sets the time with less fuel. The time he reached at the start had plenty of gas as he decided to go out fully loaded to add an extra start lap in practice after missing most of FP3. Then the track and some car damage prevented him from doing the required lap without gas the cut.
“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 expressed, also confident that the team had collected the needed data in FP1 and FP2 to assess the evolution for the next rounds.
Briatore criticized the team
Flavio Briatorein the Imola paddock, had a different opinion and harshly criticized Aston Martin for its little progress in the parts it brings to the track.
“Alonso looks good, the car not so much,” Flavio said on ‘DAZN’.
“Looks like your engine isn’t running well here, and instead of going forward we’re going backwards…Now, what I saw in the free practice, it seems like we have retreated. “Many improvements yes, but sometimes it’s better to have less but that works well”added the Italian.
Source: La Verdad
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