Yes a few days ago Fernando Alonso stated that if they did well in the next few races in Saudi Arabia and Australiathey would be strong in all of 2023, now the right hand of his partner, Lance Strollhas explained why the team believes that this will be the case.
Nuno Pintoa trusted man of the Canadian driver, revealed on the ‘Vamos Falar de FUm’ podcast that the British team see more potential for Aston Martin on the Jeddah track than on Sakhir.
“You have to analyze the reality of the numbers. In theory, Bahrain it was not the strongest circuit for the team at the start of the championship”, started the Portuguese.
“In theory, the potential of the car in Jeddah was better than in Bahrainremoving degradation from the equation, speaking of pure and hard competitiveness”, he added.
It should be remembered that in Sakhir the Aston Martin did not stand out for its straight line speeda fact that will be differential in Saudi Arabia, but in terms of downforce it was one of the best.
Even so, Nuno Pinto dared to point out in which circuits they will be really competitive: “I want to get to BarcelonaI want to go to BudapestI want to go to Austria…”.
On Lance Stroll, the Portuguese believes that he will not yet be fully recovered for Jeddah, but in Albert Park yes: “No, not in Arabia, but in Melbourne it will be 100%“.
