“Let’s see, when Fernando speaks everyone is silent“: that’s how he explains Pedro de la Rosa what is the breath in the garage of Aston Martin when the double world champion of Formula 1 He gets out of the car, asks for paper and a pen and begins his analysis.
After a rough first day of testing in Bahrain that Alonso closed with an incredible and unrealistic second placethe ambassador of the Silverstone team referred to the figure of his compatriot.
“Absolute respect, everyone attentive because Fernando directs the engineers hascia the main problem of the carIt doesn’t waste their time and that, which seems silly, is not in a world with a limited budget and such condensed tests”, explained De la Rosa on ‘DAZN’.
“There was a lot of desire for him to get on board to lead the team and decide where to direct the resources and budgets. Not many pilots have it and his sensations were good even with the new power steering, he was comfortable with the front axle and its connection with the rear”, he added, stressing the character of the Spaniard.
In addition, as a curiosity, Pedro revealed what he said Fernando Alonso to his engineers when the team suggested “more front end with the new tyre, which usually allows go faster“When I was second behind Verstappen at only 29 thousandthsa difference easily overcome with better conditions.
“He was very calm, even at one point his engineer asked him if he wanted more front end with the new tyre, which usually allows us to go faster, and he said no, we would be modifying something that we did not want to modify, that stability of analysis: ‘It is the first day of preseason, we are going to be calm and do things wellleave the wing as it is even if it is not optimal’, was what he said in order to go little by little”, Dela Rosa settled.
Alonso knows that there is still a long way to go hand in hand with Aston Martin, that with such a big change you cannot burn stages and that to get to the podium step by step you do not have to skip any chapter.
