Fernando Alonso finished his masterpiece. The third in a row. He cannot fight for wins and podiums because his car is far from that goal. Their battle is in the central zone where the rivals of Aston Martin They have made more progress throughout the year. And there, the Asturian was once again ‘the best of the rest’ by achieving a miraculous sixth position in F1 Azerbaijan GPwhich would be a good 8th if Carlos Sainz and ‘Checo’ Pérez He would not have been given two free positions in his accident with two laps to go.
“This weekend we weren’t close to Q3 and we weren’t ahead of Williams or Haas and we did it, great job by the whole team. Still not having the tools maybe at the highest level or as we want, we don’t give up and we try to do the best job possible. Sometimes that meant being 11th like in Monza, which I still remember, because it was a race very similar to today, very good and without any prizes, and today, a race with more prizes than it deserves maybe because of the last accident where we got two positions”, Alonso argued.
“But hey, sometimes it goes well and sometimes it goes wrong, but I’m happy these past weekends we’ve found a rhythm and consistency and precision that was missing 3 or 4 grands prix ago, so let’s see if we can continue like this”added the Spaniard to ‘DAZN’.
Those two places given to him by Sainz and ‘Checo’ are a reward for the perseverance, fight and resistance of the Asturian, who has already done something inexplicable in Q3, classifying his car in Q3 that there was a lap in Q2 that neither he nor his team could do. explain. And this Sunday, on the grid he gained a place and started 7th due to a penalty for Hamilton, a position that he finds very difficult to maintain due to the better race pace and better breakdown of the Williams or the Haas speed.
To defend himself with fewer weapons, he chose to sacrifice his car’s performance in curves. He installed a smaller rear wing from qualifying to be faster in the straight and thus defend himself from the enormous top speed of the Williams. But to do this, he removed the aerodynamic load from his car, and therefore, cornering grip. I had to venture further between the walls.
Simulations on Friday suggested Williams and Haas should overtake him, but he struggled to hold it back. And for a reason Alonso couldn’t explain, perhaps due to the improvement of the track or the changes made to his car before qualifying, he was able to defend himself from the attacks of the two Williams, who chose to split their approach: Albon He extended his first stop and Colapinto tried an undercut. But Fernando stayed and managed to hold off the Haas.
“The speed? It’s a bit surprising, because on Friday we had a lot of degradation. We spent some time where we were similar (on tires) to Alex Albon and the Williams was faster, so today we had a lot of doubts about how to beat them, and at the same time In the end we did it, so I don’t know if the track conditions improved so much that they helped us, or we made some changes to the car that allowed us be better this Sunday than on Friday So I’m happy “A sixth that we didn’t expect, and today, in Singapore. he commented.
“I have to take a lot of risks”
“It happened very well bred, solid, in the sense of executing everything we need to do in the best possible way, never making mistakes, we are flexible in strategybecause we didn’t know if it was one stop or two, and when people stopped around us we decided. “I had to defend myself from Franco (Coapinto), Albon and Nico (Hülkenberg) and control the race a little bit.”argument.
“The one in front is a bit far. I had to take a few risks to keep the speed high near the walls, as is often the case here in Baku, but made no mistakes. And then, finally, in the last races, it is true that the top 4 teams always finish and therefore only 9th and 10th are available for others, and now when some cars do not finish ( Sainz and Pérez) the sixth was available there and we took the opportunity. Opportunist. Now we are there,” added the man from Oviedo.
Source: La Verdad
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