Fernando Alonso is optimistic that his Aston Martin F1 team can break out of a “painful” slump and carry the momentum from the Sao Paulo Grand Prix into the rest of the season. Aston Martin returned to the podium for the first time since the Dutch Grand Prix as Alonso took third place at Interlagos, 0.053 seconds behind Sergio Perez.
It was Alonso’s eighth podium of the year, and came after Aston Martin’s relatively poor performance saw them lose fourth place in the constructors’ standings to McLaren. McLaren heads into the Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi races with a 19-point lead, but team boss Andrea Stella is “wary” of the threat from Aston, which has struggled with upgrades that didn’t work as expected in the US and Mexico. There is. Aston Martin Team Principal Mike Clack said the ‘mix and match’ approach to the AMR23 upgrade helped Lance Stroll take fifth place in Brazil, his best result since fourth place in Australia. Alonso was positive about finishing the season on a positive note. “We’ve been struggling for a few months and the last two races were quite painful,” Alonso told the media after finishing on the Brazilian podium in races in the United States and Mexico. “We had to experiment a little bit with some things on the car to really understand the direction we were going in, and next year’s car has to go the same way, so the race in Mexico in particular was painful. “We were very slow as a team in terms of performance, but it was good to see everyone in the team so focused. The team’s determination was really great from the outside, and we were able to dig deeper into our analysis and come out stronger.” “I was definitely a little worried about the last few races and probably the last part of the championship, but now I can’t wait to get to Las Vegas.” “I have a high-performance car. “There are some things that are understood within the team and there is a direction that we need to go in. We had certain expectations for Brazil and it turned out that they were right. It has been proven.”
2023-11-11 15:02:37
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