Alonso and the truth of Aston Martin: “We are the last or penultimate team; we have to wait until March”

In game city, Fernando Alonso This Saturday (Friday night) he has bad cards in his hands to get a good result. And its result shows the harsh reality of the green team. The Spaniard was 17th in the qualifying session of Las Vegas GP and his partner, Stroll, the latter. Both were at the end of the American race’s starting grid.

On a slippery track, with little grip and very cold, he did not even hope that his car could perform better at low temperatures, with a long straight. Nor did any incident he could take advantage of help him. Instead, the opposite was due to a yellow flag that he was hurt. But that’s the least of it.

Aston Martin is not competitive. That’s been the truth since the middle of the course. The car was dissolved by the evolution of the rest and went from dominating the central zone at the start, to falling to the back of the grid. And so, Fernando failed to perform another one of his many miracles this year in the classification of Vegas.

Therefore, after the fight against the clock, the Spaniard was realistic, making it clear that in the final rounds, his car was the worst or one of the two worst on the grid. Of course, his face is not angry and without any regrets, a clear sign that Alonso continues to have maximum confidence in the future of the team, in the changes that have taken place in the technical direction of the team and in the wind tunnel and new simulator that they will come. He knows that he now has to push and suffer in the last three races, with the hope of correcting the course in 2025 and, above all, aiming to go beyond the rules change in 2026, with Adrian Newey and the his pencil to the max.

“We’ve been slow all weekend”

“It was difficult, but we were also slow all weekend. We had like 4 or 5 Grands Prix as the last team or with Sauber the 9th team. Now we are 17th and -20 (with him in the team Stroll), more or less the position we expected. And I still haven’t completed the last attempt. There were several incidents in front of us, with a yellow flag, but even if he improved in Q1, I think he will be 14th or 15th in Q2,” he argued on ‘DAZN’, referring to a yellow flag hurt in his last attempt in Q2.

“But after tomorrow we will return to the position we deserve,” he continued. “I hope to be a little higher than 17th, but we have a complicated race, here, but also in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.”he declared.

“The first lap was good, but because of this there is little grip and everyone is trying. They know that they don’t have to risk anything, that they have a lot of cars, like last year, that we made Q1 a little bit bit to not crash, and then in Q3 you try to take risks to get pole. Now Q1 is our pole and we have to risk everything. So in that first lap, when you get 5th, 6th or 8th, it’s because the others are a little further away,” argued the Asturian, clarifying the reality that the green team was going through.

So that our teeth will insist until 2025

SA Fernando Alonso He had to suffer with a car that was difficult to drive and many weaknesses in the last three races of the year. In Abu Dhabi, the Asturian hopes to turn the page to start thinking about a better 2025.

“They were difficult months, we were uncompetitive and we will be uncompetitive in Qatar and Abu Dhabi as well. I have already advanced. “We have to stay positive, keep trying things for the team and wait until March next year to be in better condition.”he finished.