Has arrived Australian time. The weekend has arrived, the Grand Prix, marked in red on the Formula 1 World Championship calendar. In red or, rather, in green. In trendy team green. Of an Aston Martin that It is surprising even Fernando Alonso. From a car that has gone from being the ninth team on the grid to second in months. What happened from fighting in the lower zone to rub shoulders with Red Bull and add two podiums in two races.
Play the third. It’s time to run in Melbourne. It’s time to fight in Albert Park. On a track that, since what was seen in the Bahrain tests was seen, since it was verified that everything was true already with live fire in Sakhir’s career, It should adapt better than well to the characteristics of the AMR23.
To a car that should improve in DRS and top speed on the straight but that in Traction, entering and leaving the curve, is the best. It it was even in Jeddah. In Saudi Arabia. On a speed track where they were also the second best car globally.
Aston Martin, the second team of the World Cup
Because they are there. Because they have arrived. They have done it on their own merits and with a job that seems more like a miracle. Everyone already has them. Everyone already has Aston Martin. Everyone already knows that if they want to catch up with Red Bull they must first beat Silversone. And beware that in Australia They are not the rival to win…
In Free Practice 2 already Alonso He said ‘here I am’. Yes, there was rain, and traffic, but all things being equal he was fastest. That is not taken away by anyone. And no one takes away from having put almost half a second on Charles Leclerc and more than six tenths on Max Verstappen.
Nothing bad. But nothing bad. Not bad for the interests of Fernando Alonso, who was on the verge of achieving pole position with Alpine last year. Yeah, with an Alpine. With his former team’s car, which, compared to how the Aston Martin is and how the green car works, is several levels below.
33 can be here
It is there to lead the middle zone, but the AMR23 is there for podiums and, why not, win. To give Alonso the victory 33. It could come this weekend, because Albert Park is that kind of track. It is that circuit that It could be made for the Aston Martin.
The numbers are there. And the results too. In Bahrain, fifth in ‘qualy’ and third final after the Red Bull, leaving behind all those who came out in the way of Alonso; in Saudi Arabia, on a track not for the AMR23, second in qualifying, leader at the start and finally again bronze.
It is the good news for Spanish motorsports, being able to see to Fernando Alonso, double world champion, in position to achieve podiums and victories. In a position to compete with the best. In the place where you wanted to be for so long and who has arrived without even imagining something like that. Then there is Ferrari.
Will there be a reaction from Ferrari?
Then there is a team that needs improvement. What should react That with each passing weekend they stay With one less bullet in the chamber. One lap away, no one can doubt his potential, and Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc could well be on top on Saturday. Already in the race things change… it changes a lot.
But first, Free Practice 3. Then, qualifying. This will be the first big date with real fire that everyone has. Have them at Aston Martin. That Fernando Alonso has. That we have to give way to 33. And we will have to get up early for everything.
Schedule and where to see the classification of the Australian GP
Qualifying for the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix will begin at 07:00 Spanish peninsular time, one less in the Canary Islands, and it can be seen on ‘DAZN’. On the laSexta website, As usual, you will be able to live the passion and emotion of a ‘qualy’ marked in green for Fernando Alonso and for Aston Martin, like the previous one, the best moments and the later reactions of the day.
