Fernando Alonso’s message for 2026: “We may not be joining, but we will still be interested in next year”

Aston Martin This weekend will bring the first pack of weather evolutions to EMILIA-ROMAGNA GPIn Imolawith a new floor and a new upper cover. The team wants to wait to be “thorough” with these changes and be safer that they can work, as Aston Martin’s main team recognizes, Andy CowellEnding the details of the new pieces in the new air tunnel after the first part of its creation took place with the old wind tunnel Mercedes.

Andy Cowell hopes they will be “one step”, but above all, keep in mind that all teams will have improvements and that car development cannot be translated into positions, as other sets will improve as well. The team’s priority is to prove that at this time, after two years of failed evolution, they work because they must ensure that they solve their development problems before starting the important year of the year of 2026Where Aston Martin would like to create a car to be with Adrian Newey as the creator of the said car of the new period of regulations. It is about corroborating that the relationship of the new air tunnel to what is happening on the track is correct and that the equipment methods are polished to look for factory efficiency.

And there is a coming work of Fernando Alonso. Asturian emphasized that his main goal is to achieve the necessary data in free training to understand how to maximize this new package and help the team develops with a set of mind in 2026. And he remembers that it probably does not mean to add points to the residue of course, but it remains motivation through its short -term goals (find maximum car level).

That’s why Fernando wants to keep his feet on the ground for these changes.

“We’ll see. I think that every time you introduce an improvement in the car, there is always hoping for the teamBut at the same time, We’ve already learned enough lessons from improvements of the last two years, which probably didn’t give exactly what they should give, and now we’re going to practice on Friday with an open mind, And I think the two cars will have different packages (Lance will take the new pieces and Alonso the old ones to compare the performance), and on Friday night we will sit down and review all the data and decide for Saturday, But I don’t think there’s a stress that really looks at the new package, and YES needs to be fulfilled. Or we need to fit it into the car, yes or yes. We are calm about it, And we will give the required time to the package before entering it in a career, and make sure it is 100% a faster car than we have, “Ovetense said.

“I read that going to the circuit that the new package was going to take Lance (Friday), but I got 10 minutes ago, so this is the first activity I do, but I read this morning,” he added.

Mental management during this time

“It’s hard to provide interviews and serve the media every day. I respect it. I think it’s news that there are zero points and maybe ending with zero points. So I understand it, but I came here and I know what to do. Laps on Sunday as if they were laundering.

The pressure of today’s youth, like Dohan, without a seat after 6 races

“I don’t think a lot of pressure, the truth is. Many preparations, they make Formula 3, make formula 2, know all the circuits, make simulators, make TPC programs, and they get to Formula 1 that is very good. When I dedicated in 2001, a week before I adjusted the seat to the mine, because I was in the morning.

Verstappen and its nürburgring test with a gt3

“I’ve done that, in a way, you know, my life out of F1, when I was tired of being here and just a second actor, I wasn’t really the opponent in 2016, 17, 18, and I wanted this time, but I couldn’t say what I would do in the future. Another thing, as we see in the simulator sessions that it does, so I’m sure it will be confirmed in a few other series and we will be confirmed in a few other series and we will be confirmed in a few other series and we will be confirmed in a few other series and we will be confirmed in a few other series and we will be confirmed in a few other series and we will be confirmed in a few other series and we will be confirmed in a few other series and we will be confirmed in a few other series and we will be confirmed in a few other series and we will confiscate some other series.

This is not the same situation as when I was in McLaren

“Yes, it’s different. I think I’m in a different stage of my career. Maybe I need to try myself in 2018, that I was able to win and I would enjoy the success again and I felt the success again. Impulse for me, reaching Aston Martin and being successful and recognized.

Sainz and his possible candidacy for FIA’s presidency

“Yes, I read the news, and in fact I talked to Carlos, I think that on Sunday, for different themes, and yes, we were talking about it, and yes, it’s obviously a lot according to it, and let’s see what happens, but, obviously, he’s always going to be a good candidate, because he knows what the sport needs from this side (the pilot), that’s what we want, the pilot.”

The reduction of insult penalties and other behavior

“It is better. It is best not to receive those sanctions, so yes, I think we have some guidelines, we have some rules that we must respect, and yes, we will try to do the best possible and help the FIA ​​to give the best for future generations, and yes, there are always clear rules, and there have always been clear rules in Moto Racing, especially in the technical aspect, you cannot be below the weight, you cannot rules also with respect to the pilots in the last 24 months or whatever, or 12 months, and this is relatively new, but we will try not to receive any penalties.