It’s been a month since Monaco Grand Prix but in the minds of the fans (and part of the garage of Aston Martin) still kicks in the hypothesis of what would have happened if the team I would have put the intermediate tires directly on it to Fernando Alonso instead of the media.
The Spaniard barely held out for one lap in the Principality on wet asphalt and had to stop again, losing the chance to lead Max Verstappen.
This is certainly not a cabal, since as expressed by the head of Aston MartinMike Krack, Alonso would have started ahead of the Dutchman according to his computer system.
They asked Fernando about that in Montmeló, and he was very forceful about it. In some statements published by ‘As’ hours after the start of the weekend in Canada, Alonso looks more serious.
“We made the right decision. with a crystal ballif you know who is going to stop and what conditions there will be or if it is going to rain, one hundred percent you stop and put intermediates”, he affirmed.
From the sofa it is very easy
The ’14’ believes that not everything is seen as easy on the car and in the garage as it is “from the sofa”: “But I don’t like that in F1 you always see the negative. From the sofa it is very easy. If we stop and put intermissions, it would only talk about Red Bull’s bad decision for not having done it before. It’s the limitless pursuit of perfection in F1.”
“We saw half the track dry and the other half somewhat wet. If we have a free stop, we put dry, what everyone else has, and it rains (which happened), we all stop again and we are still in the same position“, he explained.
In fact, if we had ridden intermediates on a dry track, the result would have been worse: “But if we put intermediates and it doesn’t rain, I would have to stop again and would drop to seventh position. So if making a bad decision we are second in Monaco… we take it.”
“Of course if we see the race again we would stop for intermediates, but why didn’t Max do it? It was hard to know what was going to happen. We don’t talk enough about the constant successes of each team, only about the mistakes of some, “he settled.
