Fernando Alonso He ended a very difficult year with a smile, in the points in the last two races of a season where he had to watch his car disappear while the rest of his rivals improved. Because of this, the Spaniard once again had to bring out all his talent and his ability to take advantage of the mistakes of his rivals to enter the fight for Q3 in qualifying on several occasions in the second half of the year, including one of the worst car on the grid, and every Sunday, fighting for points that seem almost impossible every Thursday.
To do this, he needs to perform perfectly and, in turn, for the team to execute the race plan perfectly. Therefore, he was asked if his confidence increased in what he could achieve at Aston Martin when the team gave him a good car. His answer was clear.
“I already had confidence, it doesn’t give me more confidence. I know that when I have a normal car I will be as high as possible. The team is very good, it showed last year, because when we have a car at the top we always deliver and are on the podium and only Verstappen and ‘Checo’, with a superior car, usually finish in front of us . others can always see our rear spoiler. So, I have no doubt that when we are in position again, we will be ready to perform again,” the native of Oviedo argued to ‘FOX Sports’, pointing to 2026 as the great goal of Aston Martin and Fernando instead of a 2025 where a better car is expected.
“We need these points. Since Austin we hit a crash and we didn’t get a point in the American tour and now two races in the points helps, but I think in a few months we will know what we did wrong this year the car went in the wrong direction and we have to apply those lessons for the car next year. And we must face the year 2025 calmly, 2026 will continue to be a big bet for many teams, apart from McLaren and Ferrari, with a superior car, the rest of us think that we have no options in next year, in 2025, and I think. “We have to think a little bit about having a good future in the team.”he said to ‘DAZN’.
“I’m very happy, because in the end these two points plus those from Qatar, finishing the two races at the end of the season in the points left you with a good taste in your mouth.” despite the difficulties, and now I feel like I want to have a little break, do a reset. All the hardships we went through this year Hopefully they will serve as a lesson to apply to the car next year and let’s see how it turns out.”he added.
Juggling to score in the second half of the year
“Better 2025? We’re waiting, because we’ve had complications, without a doubt, and we’ve suffered at the end of this season. And even now I’d guess we’re in the 8th or 9th car (of 10). Williams was way ahead of us and at the stop on lap 12 they almost beat us and we passed them with only 4 laps to go, Haas was in a different category, Alpine, in a different category, RB mixed it up a bit. until the pit stop because if they are not in front of us… so now only the Saubers are left behind us… but our races are perfect”he commented, making it clear how difficult it is to score points in Abu Dhabi with a car that is not fit for that purpose.
“One day RB stops, another day Williams’ classification is poor, the penalty, or this or that, so we rely on others to score and this has been our specialty this year, but we can’t always trust each other . what others do regularly and we need to improve ourselves”he concluded the matter.
Source: La Verdad
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