“I think we have to have our feet on the ground. We have to understand that in Formula 1 there are no miracles from one year to the next”: that’s how emphatic he was Fernando Alonso before traveling to Bahrain to play the pre-season tests.
The two-time champion, after presenting the Aston Martin AMR23maintained the objective of leading the midfield in 2023… but after what was seen in the tests, inevitably, perspectives have changed.
Red Bull, Mercedes, authorized voices of F1… everyone sees the Silverstone team fighting for the silver Ferrari and to the team of Lewis Hamilton.
Antonio Lobatowho has followed the tests ‘in situ’ and has maintained direct contact with Alonso, has spoken on ‘Radio Marca’ about the “illusion” that flies over Aston Martin.
“I come from Bahrain very excited for both of us. First of all for Carlos, because he is at Ferrari and he has many options to do good things this year. But with Carlos and Ferrari we already had, so the greatest illusion has been given to us by Aston Martin“, has pointed out the Formula 1 narrator.
Alonso assured that in F1 there are no “miracles”, but Lobato believes that the British team may be one of the few that occur.
“I am the same one who says that miracles in Formula 1 do not exist, but they do exist and they can be counted on one hand. This may be a miracle. The qualitative leap that Aston Martin has taken is brutal,” he explained.
In fact, he sees the man from Oviedo fighting with Mercedes and Ferrari: “I’m not saying he’s going to win the World Cup, because I don’t think so. After the tests, it must be said that the enemies have changed: they are Mercedes and Ferrari. And that It’s a brutal adrenaline rush because Fernando can fight for podiums this season”.
“What Aston Martin has done it is somewhat incomprehensible. While the rest of the teams are an evolution of last year’s car, Aston Martin threw everything in the trash and they have made a 95% new car. Getting that to work from the start is very difficult,” he added.
“And the problem is not that it worked, it’s that it surprised them. Everything has been perfect. The car has a lot of potential for development and Alonso has been very comfortable. His headline on the first day was “the car is going very well” and that goes to mass, that’s fantastic “, he has settled.
