At about 10 in the morning, after the first two hours of testing in the preseason in Bahrain, Adrian Newley dropped the bomb The Red Bull guru placed Aston Martin among the teams that could be on top this Formula 1 season.
“The rivals will be Mercedes, Ferrari and maybe Aston Martin…”said one of the architects of Red Bull’s success.” And as the hours passed, Newey’s comment took shape.
The green team forgot the problems at the start and completed laps with quite acceptable times. Philip Drugovich, rookie, he stopped as soon as he went out on the track, but finished his session in the middle of the table.
Very different was Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard also had problems at the start, having to go back to the garage on the first lap, but he quickly forgot that too. In the first he already reached the fifth fastest time, approaching Max Verstappen.
But it was at the end that he left the most transcendental moment of the day: he signed a spectacular lap and was 29 thousandths behind Verstappen, moving up to second place. A position that has caused the madness of ‘Alonsismo’ in networks.
The paddock already warned
In recent weeks, some voices in the paddock had warned of the danger of Aston Martin. Sergio Perez was one of them. The Mexican was convinced that Alonso would “raise the team”: “I think Fernando is going to raise the team a lot, all I hear is that he is going to have a very competitive year for Aston Martin.”
the wind tunnel
‘The Race’ published this Wednesday that the results of the wind tunnel They have been more than satisfactory for the green team. The results would be “very good” and would allow Alonso and Lance Stroll “to be fighting against the best”, that is, Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes.
