Fernando Alonso once again made the most of his Alpine, this time at Paul Ricard, a circuit where the French team suffered more difficulties than expected to be competitive. Alpine comes from showing a good performance in Silverstone and Austria for the implementation of the new aerodynamic package at the British event. However, many novelties led McLaren Y AlphaTauri a Paul Ricard the battle in the mid zone was even tighter in a weekend that started badly for Alpine, who had balance problems on Friday that should improve for this Saturday. Finally, Alonso was able to take a step forward in qualifying that his teammate did not Or with. Fernando is 7th and Or with it is the 12th. Now, the Spaniard is focused Norris (5th), knowing that Hamilton (4th) and Russell (6th) they should have a higher speed in their Mercedes.
“The truth is that I am happy. In the end, we had a bit of a weird weekend in terms of competitiveness. I think we are faster at Silverstone or Austria than here in France and we have to see why. McLaren and AlphaTauri have brought many new parts and perhaps taken a step forward. So there’s the ointment on everything and in Q3 I think it’s a good first step, but I hope to be more competitive tomorrow and be closer than Norris, above all”Fernando explained in the statements to ‘DAZN F1’, hoping that the performance of the car will be better in the race after how much he worked on Friday focusing on tire management, something important in a race with as hot as of this one. Sunday and where the pits come in makes you a lot of time.
“I think so. On Friday we seemed to be doing quite well at race pace, behind Mercedes as the fourth team, and then after one lap we couldn’t make the most of it. We finished the seventh day in the time trial, so maybe our strong point this weekend is the race, I hope it’s like that”commented the two-time F1 world champion (2005 and 2006).
One or two stops? In theory, stop, because of the length of the pit lane. It was 27 or 28 seconds. One is always better, but in this heat you have to drive very slowly to stop. So there comes a point where you don’t know if it’s better to pull over and do two and you won’t know that until lap 15 or 20. I think we’ll all come out thinking about stop and on lap 15 or 20 there will be different strategies ”, concluded Fernando Alonso. .
Source: La Verdad
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