Next May 12, if luck does not smile before Fernando Alonsoit will be 10 years since his last victory in Formula 1.
Now, a decade after that race in Barcelona, the two-time world champion dreams of once again having the opportunity to fight for victories at the hands of a exciting project with Aston Martin.
Many are the authorized voices of the ‘Great Circus’ who see the Spaniard with the same skill and fang as always, but few really know him.
One of these is the now technical director of the Formula 1 and former engineer of Renault at the time of Alonso’s two titles, Pat Symonds.
The British assures that Fernando Alonso “He is still capable of winning if they give him a good car” since age is not “such a decisive factor”.
“I think he is still capable of winning if they give him a good car. His age is not such a decisive factor. Today’s cars are not physically demanding. You have to have a lot of stamina, but there is also the power steering”, he explained in statements to ‘Autosport International’.
“You have to be able to withstand the G forces, but if you keep training well, you can do it. And I think Fernando maintains his usual mental agility. Is it still as fast as it was in the past? I don’t know. But I think if you put him behind the wheel of the right car, I’m sure he’ll still can win races“, has added.
At the same time, Symonds has exemplified Alonso’s “ability” not in his two world titles, but in his three runners-up with Ferrari in which he was fighting for the crown until the final races.
“Fernando is an extremely skilled pilot, and we must remember that it is true that He ‘only’ won two F1 World Championships, but has finished runner-up many times. And any of those years that he finished second, he had a good chance of winning. So he could have been a five-time world champion, but he wasn’t, in part, because of fate“, has settled the technical director of F1, whose words match those of Mark Webber, the mythical rival of the Oviedo.
