Fernando Alonso has already said it. He has already confirmed it himself. He has already stated than age, that those 41 years in which they set themselves for example in Alpine, not only are they not a problem but they are a blessing. Because the, to its more than 40 springs, He’s driving like never before. Because he, the oldest on the entire grid, has never been as he is in this 2023 with Aston Martin.
And it’s not just his driving style that says so. Or his state of form. the data says so. The numbers say it. Says a Formula 1 that, on his Twitter accounthas valued what the two-time world champion is doing on this course.
In a course in which he has four podiums in five races. In which his worst result was a fourth place, and a few tenths of a third, at the Azerbaijan GP. In which such is his state of form and confidence that already look to higher levels.
Who would have said that three months ago
To something that seemed impossible and unthinkable in the summer of 2022. Even in February of this year. Because he was risky. Because it was something that not everyone saw as a breakthrough. Because leave Alpine for Aston Martin, because changing the team that was fourth for the one that was ninth, was what it was.
But it’s been something else entirely. While the French They still don’t know which way to go those of Silverstone have created a true monster. An engineering masterpiece that has become second best car on the grid and in Alonso’s great weapon to look for a new victory… and who knows if something else.
Yes, who knows if something else. And this is so in response to this start of the championship. At the start of the World Cup in which we are seeing the best Alonso ever seen in F1. This has been demonstrated by the tweet shared by the official account of the competition.
From 2010, since the scoring system changed, Alonso had never scored so many points at the start of the World Cup. He has 75. He has more than the ones he has put together even in his best courses at Ferrari and, obviously, many more than those put together at McLaren and Alpine.
Not even in his runners-up with Ferrari
To put the matter in context, in 2010, his first course in Maranello, he had 67 points. There he came to fight for the title until the last race. In 2012 he was 61. And yes, there he also fought until the end. His best year was 2013, when he got his last F1 win. There he was 72.
Yes, in all but Aston Martin. The difference? That there was no Red Bull team there. That there was no such dominance by a single team. Looking back to 2012, there were seven different winners in the first seven races…and even the Williams team had a win in Spain.
“If I compare myself with 2005 and 2006…”
But he is like never before after five races. Last year, in Alpine, he barely added a couple of points. In 2021, when he returned, he had 5. And at McLaren in two seasons he had not even managed to score.
So yes, as Alonso himself has said, it is “much better now than in 2005 and 2006.”
