Alonso: “It’s a good surprise, it’s a step forward. But I want to win”

Fernando Alonso She couldn’t hide her smile. After two years where Aston Martin He had a huge and clear developmental problem, which from more than less than the last two campaigns, unable to evolve his car to his factory work, he saw how the green team started his reaction. The green team began with one of the worst cars of the year, with many weaknesses, and Icola led the first package of weather evolution. And finally, they worked. Alonso went from suffering from Q2 in previous races, to be the 5th of Icola’s classification, something that could not be thought of a few days before.

Asturian can enter the first Q3 of the season (not counting sprint classification) and also achieved it. However, the 5th place can actually be worse, as it chose to use the average tire, which is less efficient in a return than the soft with this appointment. And that can compromise his career tomorrow. He used to use free 3 to reserve half -Rubber for ‘Qual’ and spent them for racing. He knew he could cost him some places, but he knew that the car “He has taken a step forward” And? “It’s definitely not the start of the season.”

Aston Martin has moved forward, and should be the reason for the festival for silverstones, especially to reach the 2026 insurance to solve their problems in developing all departments, procedures and a good touch of the new wind tunnel. These improvements were created in the air tunnel they rented in Mercedes and the final details were made along with the new and newly released air tunnel of Aston Martin. The next ones are fully created by their new tool.

“We do not expect it”

“The fact is that this is a good surprise, because we don’t expect to be up. Improvements, after studying them yesterday, we saw that they were a step forward and put it in both carsAnd this morning we have seen the car properly. We did the th -11 and the 13th in The Free 3 and we thought we had more or less position, there in the middle of Q2, but now to go to Q3 and then be the 5th is better than expected, this is a good surprise. Maybe we’re not the fastest and in the career you need to be prepared and ready to lose some position, but hopefully they won’t be too much “Fernando Alonso was announced in ‘Dazn’ after the Icola classification.

“It was a great day for the whole team, because we both moved to Q3, really, we freed ourselves from a little pressure. In the package we showed yesterday, we got some positive results, but you didn’t know until the classification. We need to keep our feet on the floor and maybe track the track benefit astonSo we have to do it in Monaco and Barcelona. So far, eI am happy to improve and we will see tomorrow ”he added.

“It seems yesterday that there is no doubt a step forward and now, as I said, maybe the times are a bit too optimistic to the improvement we are incorporated with, but we are certainly not in the first race situation. In Miami we are not in Q1, so yes, it’s definitely a very nice day for the team “, Commented.

The approach is complicated the breed a little

“What style is better, the middle tire or soft?” He said, reflecting the doubts that were in the rubber classification, with a soft tire that was too fragile. “So, because of the confusion, we decided to use a soft and a medium per session and in this way, we covered all the possibilities”

“I think we’re competitive with both wheels, to be honest, even on the appropriate tires. Well, I don’t know if that’s the key to classification, but yes, we’re definitely trying to use the same compounds in each session, one batch each”

“Everyone has the consequences, benefits and disadvantages,” he said about his rubber approach. “To do this in classification, along with this kind of program, one of the poor must be removed. So I think they all have two difficult for tomorrow and we have only, but that’s the bet that should be done at some point. It’s a difficult hint to be a little and prioritizing a little on Saturday, to see if it results,” he reflected.