Be world champion. It is the objective that he has between his eyebrows Fernando Alonso. He has made it clear after the race of the Monaco Grand Prixwhere he has climbed to the second drawer of the podium, a position that he had not achieved for nine years.
The two-time world champion has achieved five podiums in the first six racesmatching the records of 2005 and 2006, the two years in which world champion was proclaimed.
Despite the indisputable superiority of Red Bull, which has won the first six grands prix of 2023, Alonso believes that Aston Martin It is going in the right direction to close that gap and fight to fight for the championship.
“In 2010 and in 2012…”
In fact, there are two precedents for situations similar to those that Aston Martin is going through in which Fernando Alonso fought for the World Cup. It happened in 2010 and 2012, when Ferrari’s distance from Red Bull it was even higher than the current one between Aston Martin and the Austrian team.
Alonso clings to what happened those years to keep the options of fighting for the championship this 2023.
“We are not the fastest either but we weren’t the fastest either in 2010 and we were leaders in the last race. Not even in 2012, and we arrived with options in Brazil. We don’t think about the World Cup, but we mustn’t forget it either. A couple of Max dropouts or problems like Pérez’s and you quickly cut back”, Alonso explained after the race in statements to ‘DAZN’.
In both cases, Alonso managed to maximize a car that had no level to win in the first half of the season waiting for the improvements to arrive to be competitive in the second half.
It is doing exactly the same thing in 2023, constantly being the alternative to Red Bull. Who knows if after the summer Aston Martin manages to have a winning car and the history of 2010 and 2012 can be repeated.
