There are reasons for get excited with the ’33’. The improvements of Aston Martinthe forecast of rain and the good performances that he has left Fernando Alonso in it Canadian Grand Prix Throughout his career as a driver, they encourage us to think that the Spaniard can take away from him, at least during a Grand Prix, dominance to Red Bull.
To remember the last of those performances you have to go back to the classification of last season. Alonso, still in Alpine, completed an anthological lap in Q3. In a session marked by heavy rain, the two-time world champion took to bring out his repertoire of movements to set the second best time and get out from the first line of the grid.
Besides, Alonso already knows what it is to win in Canada, he did it in 2006 with Renault. The Aston Martin driver showed his ambition to run this grand prix, especially after the discreet seventh place achieved in the Spanish Grand Prix.
“I need to make a good classification… I can only think of Canada and I will use that motivation to have a good weekend there”, acknowledged the Spaniard after the race in Barcelona.