Fernando Alonso’s forceful request to Aston Martin after the drop in performance – Spain’s News

This new season of Formula One was being synonymous with success for Fernando Alonso. The Asturian placed Aston Martin to second place with six podiums out of eight possible. However, in the last three races the result was not as expected. Alonso was blunt after the last Grand Prix.

“Surely we have fallen in performance compared to the beginning of the season. There is no doubt that we are suffering in these last few races, so we are working hard. It is a moment to grit our teeth, to be focused, to try to understand everything that is happening in the car, the good things that we said at the beginning of the year that it is not there, what we have been able to improve to try to retain it… Improve the car, in short, “he said after the Hungarian GP.

“We are now going to reach the halfway point of the championship. I think the first part has been outstanding, despite these last two races, which have been regular. And now there is the second, which we will try to straighten out in the next races. I had a somewhat lonely race. We didn’t have much pace to attack the cars in front, nor did we have great pace from behind… I tried to push to the maximum but we lacked those three-four tenths per lap to put the cars in trouble George Russell or Carlos Sainz. Like I said, a bit of a lonely career. Ninth and 10th, both cars in the points, but logically fewer points than we initially wanted,” he added.

Finally, he also wanted to review his feelings for the next Big prize. “Belgium it’s going to be complicated. Now I think that we will need as many more free practice sessions as possible to test something in the car if we have doubts about whether it works or not. And the sprint race is not going to allow us because we go directly to qualifying on Saturday afternoon, but it’s the same for everyone. Maybe it will rain in Belgium next week and we will have to be prepared.”