Fernando Alonso is not worried about qualifying for the British Grand Prix. TO Aston Martin it has slipped McLaren… and also ahead of the Ferrari and the Mercedes. But the work of the green team is not only focused on the present.
The Asturian said it, who dropped the bomb after getting out of the car. At Silverstone Friday, the team worked on next season’s car, of 2024.
“The focus we have is not on a race. It’s long term. Even yesterday, Friday, the entire FP1 was dedicated to the 2024 car. Just to say a bit where the head of the whole team is right now,” revealed the two-time Formula 1 champion.
“Saturday is difficult to know. It is true that Sundays have been our strong point and this Sunday I trust that we can come back but I don’t know how to tell you if we are going to finish in the top 5, the first 7 or if we are going to go backwards in the race. There are many things to see. But I’m not worried,” he said.
And he puffed up his chest for the results achieved so far: “We have been in 10 races, 10 times in Q3 and I would have signed it. And tomorrow we will see how it ends, that in Austria it also seemed that everyone was flying and we ended up ahead of them scoring more points, so… this does not mean that we are not aware that we lack performance today, compared to the first 4 or 5 races. That is obvious and we all see it.”
“Austria also last year McLaren very well, Silverstone very well, and then they finished the regular year, we beat them in Alpine. So, as I say… in Abu Dhabi we do the math“, he commented.
Fernando will have to come back and wait for something to happen to be close to the podium this Sunday. There are six in nine races. And although the seventh seems very complicated, the forte of the AMR23 is Sunday.
