After finishing 17th in qualifying for the 2023 F1 round 19, the United States Grand Prix, Fernando Alonso regretted that he went into qualifying a bit blindly. Both Aston Martin drivers suffered double losses in Q1 qualifying, making it the team’s worst qualifying session all season so far. Alonso was unable to advance to Q3 for the first time this season because he made his final run too late, resulting in a major traffic problem on his out lap.
Asked if the car was capable of anything beyond 17th place, Alonso answered, “No, it was the maximum.” “It wasn’t an ideal lap, especially on the out lap the traffic was so bad it didn’t help. I think I crossed the line within a second of the limit and I ended up getting too close to the car in front of me. That didn’t help. But I felt like that lap was OK and my pace might not have been good enough to get into Q2.”Sunday’s race is pretty much in jeopardy, so we’ll see tomorrow if we can do a good sprint.” ” In a bid to regain momentum from the start of the season, Aston Martin has decided to upgrade this weekend despite the presence of a sprint format. However, in the only practice leading up to qualifying, both cars suffered problems with brake fires, limiting the running time of Alonso and teammate Lance Stroll. Alonso explained that Aston Martin was unable to identify the optimal set-up before qualifying with the new and improved package. “We should go back and finish the day completely,” Alonso stressed. “It was a terrible session from the morning. Lance didn’t do a single lap and I only did 6 or 7 laps with the new package.” “There were too many unknowns about the package and how to operate the new car, so in qualifying I went a little bit blindsided and obviously that’s what it turned out to be.”Now that the car is locked in parc fermé conditions, Alonso believes Aston Martin should opt to use the remainder of the race weekend as a test session for next year. It is claimed that. “There’s nothing we can do now that we’re in parc fermé,” Alonso admitted. “Even if it hurts, we will use this weekend as a test for next year. Let’s see what we can learn in the remaining sessions,” Fernando Alonso said. There was a lot of traffic today and I finished my out lap with a second to the checkered flag. I was too close to the car in front of me, which I don’t think helped. A lot of cars were close and I was only a tenth of a second away. That was the difference. We had some issues in FP1 and weren’t able to optimize the new package we brought to Austin. We’re in parc fermé now, so tomorrow we’ll see what we can do in cleaner conditions. I’ll take a look.”
2023-10-21 03:37:53
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