Fernando Alonso He has accumulated 32 victories in Formula 1 since 2013, when he achieved the last one behind the wheel of the Ferrari. And his followers, weeks ago, started a movement on social networks trying to ‘invoke’ his 33rd win.
Since then, her fans have searched for that number in each and every picture. And on many occasions they have found it. Even F1 published an image with the 33 hidden, asked “who would become F1 champion in 2023?”.
But now the meme has come true. Because it was Alonso himself who, on the ‘DAZN’ microphone, released the phrase: “How 33?”. All this between laughs.
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– Antonio Lobato (@alobatof1) March 2, 2023
In the preview of the Bahrain Grand Prix, the two-time Grand Circus champion has been asked if he sees it as possible to achieve that victory this season. “I don’t know”has responded, insisting that it is “difficult to say right now.”
“We have made a step forward. The work base is very good. It is an ambitious project with very talented people on the team who want to succeed. We are all pushing in the same direction,” said the Aston Martin driver.
Optimism at Aston Martin
Pedro de la Rosa, ambassador of the Aston Martin team, stated that “they were aiming high”: “We have to aim high too. We cannot continue playing the card that all the teams are going to beat us. We are ambitious…”.
Although he wanted to be cautious because you don’t know where your rivals are: “It’s always the same in tests, you go there and for three days you do long runs, short runs, you drive with five different compounds. And what do you know? You don’t know anything of the rivals, you can only say where you are compared to last season”.
His rivals warn
From the first day of the tests in Bahrain, the teams on the grid warned about the performance of the green car. Even Red Bull He pointed out that they could be in the fight against them. And it is that Alonso has been faster in the long run than the Mercedes and the Ferrari.
